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August 1, 2023
Brian Linn has published his sixth monograph
Prof. Brian Linn has published his sixth monograph, Real Soldiering: The U.S. Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980 (University Press of Kansas)! This comprehensive study reflects more than forty years of research into the history of the U.S. Army, focusing not on the bureaucratic decision-makers but instead centering troops in the field in […]
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July 25, 2023
Jonathan Brunstedt awarded Arts and Humanities Fellow Grant
Three Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences faculty are among six selected campuswide by the Division of Research to receive three-year, $15,000 grants as members of Texas A&M’s newest class of Arts and Humanities Fellows. https://artsci.tamu.edu/news/2023/07/three-arts-and-sciences-faculty-selected-as-arts-and-humanities-fellows.html
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March 3, 2023
Dr. April Hatfield’s newest monograph, Boundaries of Belonging: English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–1715
Dr. Hatfield reconstructs a wild world that goes beyond popular imagination in Boundaries of Belonging. In the decades following England’s 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean was the site of overlapping and competing claims—to land, maritime spaces, and people. English Jamaica, in the midst of Spanish American port towns and shipping lanes, […]
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January 4, 2023
Dr. Takkara Brunson Wins Major Book Award
Dr. Takkara Brunson’s book, Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba (University of Florida Press, 2021), was selected as one of two winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book prize for African American women’s history! This prize is bestowed annually by the Association of Black Women Historians and is a terrific and well-deserved […]
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November 8, 2022
David Vaught publishes scholarly biography of Hall of Fame Baseball Pitcher
David Vaught has published his fourth research monograph, Spitter: Baseball’s Notorious Gaylord Perry (Texas A&M University Press). Check out the blurbs on the Press website! Written for both scholarly and general audiences, Spitter is the first full-length biography of Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry—the notorious spitballer.
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October 13, 2022
College of Arts & Sciences interviews Dr. Sonia Hernandez for National Hispanic Heritage Month
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the College of Arts and Sciences talks to History Associate Professor Sonia Hernández about the nonprofit public history project she helped found.
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August 26, 2022
Manuel (Manny) Grajales ’22: The Story of Us
For this first generation student, history is more than just names and dates, it’s the story of who we are.
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August 9, 2022
Brian Linn publishes book chapter in Empire’s Violent End
Brian Linn has a new book chapter out, “’The normal order of things’: Contextualizing ‘technical violence’ in the Netherlands-Indonesia War,” co-authored with Azarja Harmmany in Empire’s Violent End: Comparing British, Dutch, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962.
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July 8, 2022
Adam Seipp publishes article in War & Society
New Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Adam Seipp published “Fulda Gap: A Board Game, West German Society, and a Battle that Never Happened, 1975-85,” in the premier journal in his field, War & Society.
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May 23, 2022
Andy Kirkendall publishes “Hemispheric Alliances”
Dr. Andrew J. Kirkendall has just published his latest book, Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America, with the University of North Carolina Press.