History Department faculty research interests vary. Their research is highly valued as demonstrated through their book and article publications with internationally recognized publishers and journals.
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Submissions from 1986
Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James as Public Philosophers, George Cotkin
Submissions from 1985
The Photographer in the Beat-Hipster Idiom: Robert Frank's the Americans, George Cotkin
William James and the Cash-Value Metaphor, George Cotkin
Submissions from 1984
Review: Fathers and Sons, Texts and Contexts: Henry James, Sr., and William James, George Cotkin
The Socialist Popularization of Science in America, 1901 to the First World War, George Cotkin
Submissions from 1981
"They All Talk Like Goddam Bourgeois:" Scientism And The Socialist Discourse of Arthur M. Lewis, George Cotkin
Submissions from 1979
The Spencerian and Comtian Nexus in Gompers' Labor Philosophy: The Impact of Non-Marxian Evolutionary Thought, George B. Cotkin
Submissions from 1978
Strikebreakers, Evictions and Violence: Industrial Conflict in the Hocking Valley, 1884-1885, George B. Cotkin