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Jesse Spohnholz’s The Convent of Wesel: The Event That Never Was and the Invention of Tradition<\/em> and other publications<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Jesse Spohnholz\u2019s new book, The Convent of Wesel: The Event That Never Was and the Invention of Tradition<\/em> \"Detail<\/a>(Cambridge University Press, 2017), centers on a mystery that has perplexed historians for centuries. Purportedly, the Convent of Wesel was a clandestine assembly of Protestant leaders in 1568 that helped establish the foundation for Reformed churches in the Dutch Republic and northwest Germany. Spohnholz shows it was a myth perpetuated by historians and record keepers since the 1600s. Appropriately then, his book offers not just a history of the Reformation but a reflection on the nature of historical inquiry itself. The Convent of Wesel<\/em> begins by offering a detailed microhistory that solves the mystery, and then traces knowledge about this document over four and a half centuries through historical writing, archiving and centenary commemorations to show how historians and archivists created and shaped the mystery.<\/p>\n

The distinguished historian Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks calls the book, \u201cas gripping as any murder mystery\u201d and adds that \u201cIn our era of fake news and fabricated traditions, The Convent of Wesel<\/em> provides both a cautionary tale and a defense of the practice of history.\u201d Another prominent historian, Mary Lindamann, has called the book \u201ca must read for all historians and not just for those interested in the Reformation or religious history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jesse<\/a>About the same time, Spohnholz\u2019s coedited collection, Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517\u20132017<\/em> appeared, just in time for the 500-year-anniversary of the German Reformation. The book carefully reconstructs the politics of remembering and forgetting elements of the Reformation over centuries, and offers ways of reconstructing the fascinating and often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured. The book appeared in the Berghahn Books\u2019 Spektrum series, published under the auspices of the German Studies Association.<\/p>\n

In the past year, articles by Spohnholz appeared in the scholarly journals Church History<\/em> and  The Bulletin of the German Historical Institute<\/em> on the topics of the memory of the Reformation and religious toleration during Europe\u2019s Age of Religious Wars.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Sue Peabody publishes Madeleine\u2019s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France\u2019s Indian Ocean Colonies <\/em>and receives praise for other literary achievements<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Professor Sue Peabody has published a new book: Madeleine\u2019s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France\u2019s Indian Ocean Colonies<\/em>. Madeleine\u2019s Children <\/em>is rare narrative in world history of an enslaved person \"Detail<\/a>challenging his status in court and winning his freedom. It is the first full-length biography tracing slavery in the Indian Ocean world and contains a detailed family saga of love, betrayal, hope, and struggle set against the broader context of plantation slavery, Parisian society, and colonization.<\/p>\n

Madeleine\u2019s Children <\/em>has become the center of attention in the French historical community, and earned her multiple awards since its release. For more information on awards related to Madeleine\u2019s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France\u2019s Indian Ocean Colonies, <\/em>please see our article in “Scholarships & Awards<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\"Sue<\/a>Sue Peabody’s 2017-18 literary accomplishments further include the many articles listed below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cA Local View on Global Climate and Migration Patterns: The Impact of Cyclones and Drought on the Routier Family and their Slaves in Ile Bourbon (La R\u00e9union), 1770\u20131820.\u201d In Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World<\/em>. Edited by Gwyn Campbell. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018. 123-142.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cPoursuivre en justice pour s\u2019affranchir: une forme de r\u00e9sistance? L’exemple de l’esclave Furcy\u201d in  Special Issue: Les r\u00e9sistances \u00e0 l\u2019esclavage dans le monde atlantique fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 l\u00b9\u00e8re des R\u00e9volutions (1750-1850). Edited by Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec. <\/span>Revue d’histoire de l’Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise, <\/span><\/em>71: 1-2 (Summer\/Autumn, 2017) : 35-57. <\/span>https:\/\/www.erudit.org\/fr\/revues\/haf\/2017-v71-n1-2-haf03346\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u201c<\/span>S\u2019affranchir ou s\u2019enraciner ? Le droit fran\u00e7ais sur la migration des colonies \u00e0 la metropole \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque de l\u2019esclavage.<\/span>\u201d In <\/span>Arch\u00e9ologie des migrati<\/em>ons<\/span>, edited by Dominique Garcia and Herv\u00e9 Le Bras, (Paris: La D\u00e9couverte, 2017), pp. 317-327.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cLes enfants de Madeleine, esclaves \u00e0 l\u2019\u00eele Bourbon (XVIIIe-XIXe si\u00e8cle).\u201d <\/span>Clio : Femmes, Genre, Histoire<\/span><\/em>.<\/em> Special Issue: Le nom des femmes. <\/span>Edited by Agn\u00e8s Fine et Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. 45 (Spring 2017): 171-84.<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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Charles Weller edits the 21st-Century Narratives of World History: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"Charles<\/a>In late 2017, Dr. Charles Weller announced the release of his latest work, 21st-Century Narratives of World History: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives<\/em>. Find out more about this well-received collection of historical research and dialogue. Included below is an “about” excerpt from the publishing company.<\/p>\n

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<\/u>\"Cover“This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world\/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and, at times, <\/u>challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks, (2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom, (3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as other fields of research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and (4) promote comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions for the field of world history in particular, as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected, interdependent, multicultural, and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested history.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Journal Articles, News Publications and Essays 2017-2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Faculty publications to locate and read <\/span><\/h3>\n