News

~ Tom McCarthy's Auto Mania has been named one of the "outstanding academic titles" for 2008 by Choice magazine.  This prestigious list reflects the best titles reviewed by Choice in 2008 and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community.

~ 2009 Naval History Symposium - The History Department would like to announce its Call for Papers for the 2009 Naval History Symposium!  Please see the following link for more information: Naval History Symposium.

~ The Yardarm: News from the History Department.  Please take a moment to review our Fall newsletter!

~ Recent Publications by Faculty - Congratulations to the following faculty on their most recent book publications:

-  Anne T. Quartararo.  Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France.  (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2008). 

-   Mitchell A. Yockelson, Borrowed Soldiers, Americans Under British Command, 1918. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).

-    Hayden Bellenoit, Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007).

-    Laura Kamoie, Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Taloe Family and the Virginia Gentry, 1700-1860. (Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2007).

-Tom McCarthy, Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).