Frankly Speaking

For someone pursuing a doctorate in History, I really didn't do that much reading last year. Much of the time I was skimming books by t...

Giovanni Levi, Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist , translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp....

Mark R. Stoll,  Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism . New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp....

If you're interested in exploring how race and civil rights played out in America during the last 100 years, you could hardly find thr...

Ginzburg, Carlo.  The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller . Translated by John and Anne Tedeschi. Baltimore: Jo...

In 2008, Ussama Makdisi published his award-winning title, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Mid...

Worthen, Molly. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism . New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. In  The ...

Interested in U.S. Presidents of the Twentieth Century? This list of seven books includes some of the better works that I have sampled so fa...

Easter Sunday lunch at Aspen Creek in Amarillo

Thompson, E. P. “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.” Past & Present 38 (December 1967): 56-97. With apologies to Steph...

Jan de Vries,  The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present . New York: Cambridge University...

Michael Baxandall,  Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style . Oxford: Claren...