Bøger i Historians in Conversation serien

A collection of essays and interviews that addresses several subjects central to religious history in the United States. It explores the challenges of assimilation faced by Jews and Catholics in the United States, the origins and historical significance of American evangelical Christianity, and the phenomenon of millennialism in America.

Using forums, interviews, and individual essays, this collection offers contrasting views on such topics in military history as the existence and function of military revolutions, the experience of soldiering and combat, the particularly violent and gruesome nature of twentieth-century warfare and projections of nature of future wars.

Seeks to broach the big questions at stake in the efforts to fathom the historical importance of science and religion - two of the most important ways of knowing our world - to better our understanding of how both have shaped the course of history and the direction of modern thinking.

A collection of articles that explores the relationship of Africa to world history. It maps the state of the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, and debates the accuracy of Olaudah Equiano's seminal narrative.

A collection of essays and interviews that demonstrates that traditional approaches foster fresh understanding of the early American past. It is suitable for related courses on American history as well as an entrance point for savvy general readers.

Offering a look at trends in methods of historical inquiry, this book includes topics of historical inquiry as the impact of postmodernism on the field, the relationship between professional and popular history, and the importance of historical consciousness.