This collection features articles and book reviews written by faculty in the Department of History at Fairfield University.
Submissions from 2020
Why New York will get through this: We will survive the coronavirus pandemic because of our people, Richard Greenwald
Submissions from 2017
Book Review: Hitler At Home by Despina Stratigakos, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Book Review: The Holocaust: History and Memory by Jeremy Black, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Submissions from 2016
Book Review: “Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China,” by Jung Chang, Danke K. Li
Submissions from 2015
Advice for the ‘Other’ New College Students, Richard Greenwald
Power in a union: American working men and women have seen better days, but some innovative organizers are bringing bright flickers of hope, Richard Greenwald
The Books You Need to Read to Understand the Freelance World, Richard Greenwald
Book Review: "Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis 1931-45, Danke K. Li
Book Review: When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster by Carl J. Richard, David W. McFadden
Book Review: Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witnessing Era edited by Diana Popescu and Tanja Schult, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Submissions from 2014
Book Review: A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669 by Pierre Birnbaum, Patricia Behre
Will Eric Garner be our Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?, Richard Greenwald
Teaching the History of Women in China and Japan: Challenges and Sources, Danke K. Li
Book Review: Silent Conflict: A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relation by Michael J. Carley, David W. McFadden
Book Review: The American YMCA and Russian Culture: The Preservation and Expansion of Orthodox Christianity, 1900–1940 by Matthew Lee Miller, David W. McFadden
Book Review: Das Unbehagen an der Erinnerungskultur: Eine Intervention by Aleida Assmann, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
WHITHER 'WHAT IF' HISTORY?, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Idiom and Social Practice in Medieval Nubia, Giovanni Ruffini
You are the River of Change - transcript of speech, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2013
Book Review: “The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation in the Revolutionary War,” by Christian McBurney, Patricia Behre
Labor’s Moment of Truth, Richard Greenwald
Why the 'Rent Is Too Damn High' Guy Still Matters, Richard Greenwald
Will Climate Change Alter the Geography of New York’s Public Housing?, Richard Greenwald
Will this be Bangladesh's Triangle Fire Moment?, Richard Greenwald
Dying for the Shirt on Your Back, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch
Book Review: So viel Hitler war selten: Die Banalisierung des Bösen, oder Warum der Mann mit dem kleinen Bart nicht totzukriegen ist by Daniel Erk, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Submissions from 2012
Building Students’ Integrative Thinking Capacities: A Case Study in Economics and History, William Abbott and Kathryn Nantz
A Freelance Economy Can Be Good for Workers: Let's Make It Better, Richard Greenwald
A Reboot of Higher Ed Might Be Just What We Need, Richard Greenwald
New Kinds of Leadership, Richard Greenwald
The Lifecycle of a 'Cool' Neighborhood, Richard Greenwald
Think of First-Generation Students as Pioneers, Not Problems, Richard Greenwald
Book Review: Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice by Gerald Steinacher, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "Theodoret’s People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria" by Adam M. Schor, Giovanni Ruffini
Book Review. African American History Reconsidered by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2011
Weaving Colleges Into Communities, Richard Greenwald
Book Review: "Memory is Another Country: women of the Vietnamese Diaspora,” by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Danke K. Li
Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945, by Michaela Hoenicke Moore, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Village Life and Family Power in Late Antique Nessana, Giovanni Ruffini
Submissions from 2010
Graduate Education in the Humanities Faces a Crisis. Let's Not Waste It., Richard Greenwald
Today's Students Need Leadership Training Like Never Before, Richard Greenwald
Book Review: The Tea House: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950,” by Di Wang, Danke K. Li
Hitlers Judenhass. Klischee und Wirklichkeit, by Ralf Georg Reuth, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Nubian Ostraka from the West Bank Survey, Giovanni Ruffini
Book Review. Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta by Alton Hornsby, Yohuru Williams
Book Review. Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt by Hasan Jeffries, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2009
Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum, by Nicholas D. Jackson, William M. Abbott
The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian Reforms, 1633-1641, by John McCafferty, William M. Abbott
Book Review: “The Talented Women of Zheng Family,” by Susan Mann, Danke K. Li
Women’s Movement in the Chongqing Region during China’s War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1945, Danke K. Li
A Looming Crash or a Soft Landing? Forecasting the Future of the Memory "Industry", Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past, by Neil Gregor, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "Germany's Other Modernity: Munich and the Making of Metropolis 1895-1930" by Leif Jerram, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Book Review: Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian by Peter Sarris, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Giovanni Ruffini
Psalms 149-150: A Bilingual Greek and Old Nubian Version from Qasr Ibrim, Giovanni Ruffini
Submissions from 2008
Abstraction and the Holocaust, by Mark Godfrey, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
"The War that Backfired" a review of Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Aphrodito Before Dioskoros, Giovanni Ruffini
Book Review. Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon, by Jane Rhodes, Yohuru Williams
“Some Abstract Thing Called Freedom”: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party, Yohuru Williams
Was Thomas Jefferson A Black Panther?, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2007
Book Review: Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked by Dee Garrison, David W. McFadden
A Flawed Prophecy? Zakhor, the Memory Boom, and the Holocaust, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age", Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaide, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, by Alan E. Steinweis, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Book Review. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia By Matthew Countryman, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2006
Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade Against Radicalism, 1919-1923, by Todd J. Pfannestiel, David W. McFadden
Book Review: Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders by of Gerhard L. Weinberg, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust", Carolyn Dean, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Genealogy and the Gymnasium, Giovanni Ruffini
The Commonality of Rare Names in Byzantine Egypt, Giovanni Ruffini
A House is Not a Home: the Collins Park Bombing of 1959, Yohuru Williams
Book Review. Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era by Christopher Strain, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2005
Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism, by James D. Rose, Cecelia F. Bucki
Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937-1953, by Joshua H. Howard, Danke K. Li
Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965, by Anthony D. Kauders, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
What if the Nazis Had Won?, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
A Tragedy with a Happy Ending? The Lynching of George White in History and Memory, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2004
Civic Life in Fourth-Century Trimithis: Two Ostraka From the 2004 Excavations, Roger S. Bagnall and Giovanni Ruffini
Popular culture in the making of anti-imperialist and nationalist sentiments in Sichuan, Danke K. Li
The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921, by Bertrand M. Patenaude, David W. McFadden
Alternate History and Memory: A Response to Richard Evans, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
A Mastered Past? Prussia in Postwar German Memory, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Kulturelle Repräsentationen des Holocaust in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten, edited by Klaus Berghahn, Jürgen Fohrmann, and Helmut J. Schneider, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "The Conflagation-Germany during the Allied Bombing Campaign 1940-45" by Jörg Friedrich, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
"The Historian as Judge", A Review of Daniel J. Goldhagen’s A Moral Reckoning, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Book Review: Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought by Dean Robinson, Yohuru Williams
Book Review. Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965–75 by Joy Ann Williamson, Yohuru Williams
Submissions from 2003
Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century, by Alain Cabantous, Patricia Behre
Household decisions and gender inequality in education in rural China, Danke K. Li and Mun C. Tsang
Book Review: The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in US-Soviet Relations by Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani, David W. McFadden
Book Review: "Searching for the Roots of Mass Murder," A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation by Eric Weitz, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich" by Bill Niven, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000:German Strategies and Jewish Responses", Dan Michman, ed., Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
"The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith" by Paul T. Phillips, Jeffrey P. von Arx S.J.
Submissions from 2002
Book Review: War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914–1921 by Norman E. Saul, David W. McFadden
Book Review: "A Problem of Humankind?" Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "Geschichtsversessenheit: Vom Umgang mit deutschen Vergangenheiten nach 1945" by Aleida Assmann and Ute Frevert, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Review of "War Damage in Western Europe: The Destruction of Historic Monuments During the Second World War" by Nicola Lambourne, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Why Do We Ask “What If?", Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
