Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World
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The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or...
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In the ten years since John Malley lost his wife and daughter, he has slowly faded into obscurity in...
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Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence, and the West
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Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of...
Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash
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It’s Pittsburgh, 1910—the golden age of steel in the land of opportunity. Eastern European...
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Musical Maryland: A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio
David K. Hildebrand and Elizabeth M. Schaaf
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In Musical Maryland, the first comprehensive survey of the music emanating from the Old Line State,...
Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, is "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist...
Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City
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What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization...
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free...
Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land
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Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their...
The Course of History: Great Meals That Changed the World
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Many decisions which have had enormous historical consequences have been made over the dinner table,...