Category Archives: Department publications

Father Rob Carbonneau, C.P., Ph.D. Adjunct. Department of History has published the following articles

“The Passionist Story of Thomas Berry, C.P. A Personal Reflection on His Legacy and Inspiration.” In The Ecozoic. The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry. Number 6. 2021, pp. 14-20.  (The Ecozoic: Reflections on Life for an Ecological Age The Living … Continue reading

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Dr. Fan’s New Article on Life in a Chinese Treaty Port

Dr. Shuhua Fan’s most recent article “The Knight Brothers in Niuzhuang: U.S. Merchants & Foreign Life in a Small Chinese Treaty Port,” has been published in The Chinese Historical Review, Volume 27, No. 1 (May 2020): 1-31. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1547402X.2020.1788864

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Dr. Susan Poulson’s New Book on Suffrage

  Dr. Susan Poulson’s new book, titled Suffrage: The Epic Struggle for Women’s Right to Vote, has recently been published Praeger and is now available. The fight for women’s suffrage was a long and colorful struggle, beginning with a small … Continue reading

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Fr. Carbonneau on St. Ann’s Novena and Coal Mine Spirituality in Scranton

Fr. Rob Carbonneau recently spoke with WVIA about the place of St. Ann’s Novena in Scranton’s History.  The discussion is based on his article, “Coal Mines, St. Ann’s Novena and Passionist Spirituality in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1902-2002”, in “American Catholic Studies”, … Continue reading

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Author Interview with Dr. Dzurec

Dr. David Dzurec recently posted to the “Author’s Corner” on the history blog, “The Way of Improvement Leads Home.”

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Dr. Shuhua Fan, Summer 2018- Presentation and Publication

Conference Presentation: “The Knight Brothers at Newchwang (Niuzhuang): Foreign Community in Mid-Nineteenth Century Chinese Treaty Ports,” at the June 21-23, 2018 Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Philadelphia, PA. Publication: Chinese edition of The Harvard-Yenching … Continue reading

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Dr. Kennedy, the Boston Marathon, and Only A Game

Dr. Lawrence Kennedy’s new book, Bricklayer Bill, was featured on NPR’s Only a Game this weekend in anticipation of Patriot’s Day and the Boston Marathon this coming Monday.  You can check out the Only A Game segment here.

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Dr. Aiala Levy: Collaborative Reading and Note-Taking: How to Foster a Forum Using Google Docs

Be sure to check out this article written by Dr. Aiala Levy in the April 2018 Perspectives magazine. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2018/collaborative-reading-and-note-taking-how-to-foster-a-forum-using-google-docs      

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Dr. Lawrence Kennedy publishes new work on “Bricklayer Bill”

Along with his son Patrick, Dr. Lawrence Kennedy has recently finished work on his most recent book, Bricklayer Bill: The Untold Story of the Workingman’s Boston Marathon. The book traces the experience of Irish American “Bricklayer Bill” Kennedy won the … Continue reading

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Dr. Shuhua Fan’s New Book

  Dr. Shuhua Fan has recently published The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering: Remaking the Humanities in China, 1924-1951 (Lexington Books, 2014). As the first comprehensive study on the subject, the book adopts a concept of “cultural engineering,” which is … Continue reading

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