History
Department

Recent Publications

St. Mary's history professors have active research careers. Most have published at least one book and numerous articles. Here is a sampling of publications in the last few years. Check out the professors' web pages for complete listings of publications.

Christine Adams | Tom Barrett | Adriana Brodsky | Kenneth Cohen | Linda Jones Hall | Charles Holden | Charles Musgrove | Gail Savage

Christine Adams:

Tom Barrett:

• "Wild East Shows: Becoming Soviet, Becoming Ossetian Through Dzhigitovka," Kavkazskii sbornik (Caucasus Collection), no. 3 (2007)
• "'It Does Not Suit a Cossack to Live Alone': Women and Gender in Cossack History," Nestor: Journal of the History and Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe, "Special Theme: Changing Paradigms: Contemporary Russian Studies," no. 11, 2007, published by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• "'Thrills of Horror': Siberia and the American Melodramatic Imagination," in Eva-Maria Stolberg, ed., The "Siberian Saga": A History of Russia's Wild East (Peter Lang, 2005)

Adriana Brodsky:

• "Jews-Colonial," and "Jews-Modern," Encyclopedia of Iberian American Relations, Michael Francis, ed., (ABC-CLIO Inc: Santa Barbara, 2005)
• "Sephardic Women in Argentina," and "Women and Zionist Activity in Argentina," Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer, eds., (Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing Ltd., 2006).

Kenneth Cohen:

• "Well Calculated for the Farmer: Thoroughbreeds in the Chesapeake, 1750-1830," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 115: 4 (Fall 2007)
• "The Forgotten History of Billiards in Early America," The Catalog of Antiques and Fine Art, 5: 1 (January 2004)
• "'A Mutually Comprehensible World?' Native Americans, Europeans, and Play in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic," American Indian Quarterly, 26: 1 (Spring 2002)

Linda Jones Hall:

• William R. Caraher, Linda Jones Hall, and R. Scott Moore, eds., Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2008 
• "Rescuing the Reputation of Tyre in Late Antiquity: The Documentation of Gynaecea/Genicia as Weaving Factories, not Brothels," CHRONOS: Revue d'Histoire de l'Université de Balamand 12 (2005)
• "The Governors of Phoenicia as Known to us from the Letters of Libanius," in "Mélanges offerts à Rey-Coquais," Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph 60 (2007)
• "Tyre in Late Antiquity," Electrum 12 (2007)
• Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Modern Beirut was a city of major importance in the Roman world, as one the three main centers for the study of Roman law. For this study Linda Jones Hall exploits the numerous primary sources, including inscriptions, religious histories, literary references, legal codes, and archaeological reports, to present a composite history of late antique Berytus - from its founding as a Roman colony in the time of Augustus, to its development into a center of legal study under Justinian.

    The book examines all aspects of life in the city, including geographical setting, economic base, built environment, political structures, religious transitions from paganism to Christianity, and the self-identity of the inhabitants in terms of ethnicity and occupation. The full texts of numerous narratives are presented to reveal the aspirations of the law students, the professors, and their fellow citizens such as the artisans. The study also explores the cultural implications of the city's Greek, Roman and then Syro-Phoencian heritage.

    This volume provides the first detailed investigation of late antique Phoenicia, analyzing the governors' and inhabitants' perception of themselves as Phoenician rather than Syrian. Professor Jones Hall also looks at how religious affiliations are traced among pagans, Jews, and Christians. Through a study of the bishops and the churches, she shows that religious adherence was a much more complex issue than the simple Monophysite interpretation usually presented.

Charles Holden:

• John Brown as a `Lawless Fanatic': A Usable Past for the Postwar South," in Terrible Swift Sword: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Life of John Brown, Peggy A. Russo and Paul Finkelman, editors, (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005).
• "South Atlantic Quarterly," "Blues," "The Lost Cause," "Dixiecrats," in The Handbook of North Carolina History, edited by William S. Powell (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

Charles Musgrove:

• "Cheering the Traitor: The Post-War Trial of Chen Bijun, April 1946." Twentieth-Century China vol. 30, no. 2 (April 2005)
• "The Nation and Daily Life in Modern Chinese Cities." Journal of Urban History vol. 33, no. 4 (May 2007)
• "Manga Introduction to China and Its Implication for Global Education." Co-authored with Kinko Ito. Global Education vol. 9 (March 2007)

Gail Savage:

• "'A State of Personal Danger': Domestic Violence in England, 1903-1922." In Assaulting the Past: Placing Violence in Historical Context, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007