Faculty publications from the History Department at Gettysburg College.

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2024

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The Artist and the President: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Painting Impulse and the Andrew Wyeth Connection, Michael Birkner

The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front, Ian A. Isherwood

2023

De l’ancrage d’une ville africaine: Abidjan, la mondialisation et le colonialisme tardif en Côte d'Ivoire, Abou B. Bamba

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Winston Churchill in Manhattan, March 25, 1949, Michael Birkner

“Improve Their Condition While Making Them Useful”: Colonia General Conesa and the Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Argentina, Hannah Greenwald

Lancaster in 1980, David Schuyler and Michael J. Birkner

In the Bushes: The Secret History of Anglo-Iroquois Treaty Making, Timothy J. Shannon

Peter Williamson, French and Indian Cruelty: A Modern Critical Edition, Timothy J. Shannon

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“A quem o quizer colher”: as drogas do sertão e o Diretório dos Índios, Grão-Pará, 1757-1798, Barbara A. Sommer

2022

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Courting American Capital: Public Relations and the Business of Selling Ivorian Capitalism in the U.S., 1960-1980, Abou B. Bamba

Bringing Out the Vote: New Hampshire and the Presidential Campaign of 1952, Michael Birkner

2021

Displacing the French? Ivorian Development and the Question of Economic Decolonisation, 1946–1975, Abou B. Bamba

The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America’s Enduring Conflict, Michael J. Birkner

Introduction: Ruminations on the ‘F’ and ‘B’ Words, Timothy J. Shannon

2019

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Interview with Frederick Weiser and Charles H. Glatfelter, Michael J. Birkner

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The Warrior as Priest: Edmund Herring and the "Call to the People of Australia", Michael J. Birkner

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The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality and Politics in Civil War America, Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist

The World Cup as World History, William D. Bowman

Going to the Source, Volume I: To 1877, Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon

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The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs: A Digital History, Ian A. Isherwood, Amy E. Lucadamo, and R.C. Miessler

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The Great War and the Digital Humanities: Creating a Project and Building a Team, Ian A. Isherwood, Amy E. Lucadamo, and R.C. Miessler

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Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, Timothy J. Shannon

Conflict, Alliance, Mobility, and Place in the Evolution of Identity in Portuguese Amazonia, Barbara A. Sommer

2018

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‘Mightier Than Marx’: Hassoldt Davis and American Cold War Politics in Postwar Ivory Coast, Abou B. Bamba

"Not so Fine": Governor John Fine and the 1952 Republican Presidential Nominating Struggle in Pennsylvania, Michael J. Birkner

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The Battle FDR Lost:The Failed Nomination of Boss Ed Flynn as Minister to Australia, Michael J. Birkner

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A Whole Lot of Blame to Go Around: The Confederate Collapse at Five Forks, Peter S. Carmichael

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The Trophies of Victory and the Relics of Defeat: Returning Home in the Spring of 1865, Peter S. Carmichael

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The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies, Peter S. Carmichael

Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain, Timothy J. Shannon

2017

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From Hackensack to the White House: The Triumph and Travail of E. Frederic Morrow, Michael J. Birkner

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Ike's Leadership Lessons for New President, Michael J. Birkner

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Monuments Ought to be Considered Case by Case, Michael J. Birkner

Eisenhower's Gettysburg Farm, Michael J. Birkner, Carol A. Hegeman, and Kevin Lavery

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Is Ivory Coast Seeing a Second ‘Economic Miracle’?, Kim Yi Donne and Abou B. Bamba

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Un Nouveau Miracle Économique Ivoirien?, Vincent Hiribarren and Abou B. Bamba

A 'Wicked Commerce': Consent, Coercion, and Kidnapping in Aberdeen's Servant Trade, Timothy J. Shannon

The Baubles of America: Object Lessons from the Eclectic Empire of Peter Williamson, Timothy J. Shannon

2016

African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast, Abou B. Bamba

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Producing an Imperial Bridgehead: The Making of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, 1908-1955, Abou B. Bamba

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Commentary: Echoes of '64 Campaign in Toomey-McGinty Race, Michael J. Birkner

James Buchanan, 1791-1868, Michael J. Birkner

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Three Things Putin Will Love About Trump, William D. Bowman

Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History, Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon

Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer, Joan-Lluís Palos and Magdalena S. Sanchez

‘She Grows Careless’: The Infanta Catalina Micaela and Spanish Etiquette at the Court of Savoy, Magdalena S. Sanchez

Iroquoia, Timothy J. Shannon

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What About That Pursuit of Happiness?, Timothy J. Shannon

2015

Conspicuous, Yet Invisible: Migration, Whiteness and the French Residents of Ivory Coast, 1950–1985, Abou B. Bamba

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Burnishing Buchanan's Brand on his Birthday, Michael J. Birkner

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Governing New Jersey: Reflections on the Publication of a Revised and Expanded Edition of 'The Governors of New Jersey', Michael J. Birkner

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Lancastrians Marched with Dr. King in Selma, Michael J. Birkner

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Paving the Way to Scandal: History Repeats Itself, Michael J. Birkner

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Encounters with Eisenhower: Personal Reminiscences Collected to Mark the 125th Anniversary of the Birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael J. Birkner and Devin McKinney

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The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs, Hugh John Chevallier Peirs

2014

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An Unconventional Challenge to Apartheid: The Ivorian Dialogue Diplomacy with South Africa, 1960-1978, Abou B. Bamba

Zachary Taylor in Office: Clay, the Whig Party, and the Sectional Crisis, Michael J. Birkner

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George M. Leader, 1918-2013, Michael J. Birkner and Charles H. Glatfelter

The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays, Michael J. Birkner, Donald Linky, and Peter Mickulas

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Why is PA's James Buchanan Ranked So Low?, Michael J. Birkner and John Quist
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Heroes of Berlin Wall Struggle, William D. Bowman

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Passion and Conflict: Medieval Islamic Views of the West, Karen C. Pinto

Avenue of Empire: The Hudson Valley in an Atlantic Context, Timothy J. Shannon

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French and Indian Cruelty? The Fate of the Oswego Prisoners of War, 1756-1758, Timothy J. Shannon

The Amazonian Native Nobility in Late-Colonial Para, Barbara A. Sommer

2013

Transnationalising Decolonisation: The Print Media, American Public Spheres, and France’s Imperial Exit in West Africa, Abou B. Bamba

Epilogue: Buchanan's Civil War, Michael J. Birkner

'More to Induce than Demand': Eisenhower and Congress, Michael J. Birkner

Sherman Adams’ Fall, and the Scandal Behind the Scandal, Michael J. Birkner

The Wisest Help: Frederick Keppel and his Consultants’ Impact on Australia and New Zealand Libraries, Michael J. Birkner

James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War, John Quist and Michael J. Birkner

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"James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War" with John Quist and Michael Birkner, John Quist and Michael J. Birkner

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"James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War" with John Quist and Michael Birkner, John Quist and Michael J. Birkner

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Lord of My Soul: The Letters of Catalina Micaela, Duchess of Savoy, to Her Husband, Carlo Emanuele I, Magdalena S. Sanchez

The Seven Years' War in North America: A Brief History with Documents, Timothy J. Shannon

American Odysseys: A History of Colonial North America, Timothy J. Shannon and David N. Gellman

2012

New Jersey in the Jacksonian Era, 1820-1850, Michael J. Birkner

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Searchin’ His Eyes, Lookin’ for Traces: Piri Reis’ World Map of 1513 & its Islamic Iconographic Connections (A Reading Through Bagdat 334 and Proust), Karen C. Pinto

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Why Joanna Baptista Sold Herself into Slavery: Indian Women in Portuguese Amazonia, 1755-1798, Barbara A. Sommer

Prosperity Far Distant: The Journal of the American Farmer, 1933-1934, Charles Wiltse and Michael J. Birkner

2011

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At the Edge of the Modern?: Diplomacy, Public Relations, and Media Practices During Houphouët-Boigny's 1962 Visit to the United States, Abou B. Bamba

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Hakoah Vienna and the International Nature of Interwar Austrian Sports, William Bowman

2010

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Mémoires épistémiques et pouvoir d’experts dans une postcolonie africaine: Le cas de l’usage des savoirs africanistes par l’ORSTOM en Côte d’Ivoire, Abou B. Bamba

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Rebirth of a Strategic Continent?: Problematizing Africa as a Geostrategic Zone, Abou B. Bamba

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Triangulating a Modernization Experiment: The United States, France and the Making of the Kossou Project in Central Ivory Coast, Abou B. Bamba

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'Not Yet Ready': Australian University Libraries and Carnegie Corporation Philanthropy, 1935-1945, Michael J. Birkner

2009

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Adams County Votes for President, 1804-2008, Charles H. Glatfelter

2008

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Will the Real James Duncan Please Stand Up?, Charles H. Glatfelter and Wayne E. Motts

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The World that Made William Johnson, Timothy J. Shannon

2007

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The Eisenhowers at Twilight: A Visit to the Eisenhower Farm, 1967, Michael J. Birkner

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No Small Influence... on the Intellect, the Morals, and the Temporal Prosperity of Our Town: Gettysburg College and Its Community, Charles H. Glatfelter

2006

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Qu'est-ce que la postcolonie? Contribution à un débat francophone trop afrocentré, Abou B. Bamba

Gettysburg College, Michael J. Birkner and David T. Crumplar

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George Arnold (1799-1879) and a Town Immortalized, Charles H. Glatfelter

2005

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Looking Up From the Basement: New Biographies of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, Michael J. Birkner

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A Visit to the Battlefield, Michael J. Birkner and Richard E. Winslow

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Queequeg's Tomahawk: A Cultural Biography, 1750-1900, Timothy J. Shannon

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The Seven Years' War in New York State: Introduction, Timothy J. Shannon

2004

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Book Review: Pavements in the Garden: The Suburbanization of Southern New Jersey, Adjacent to the City of Philadelphia, 1769 to the Present, by Ann Marie T. Cammarota, Michael J. Birkner

2003

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"He's My Man": Sherman Adams and New Hampshire's Role in the "Draft Eisenhower" Movement, Michael J. Birkner