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The peaks and hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers
Go up and down the alleys, tap the cells of knowledge--
Honey and wax, the accumulation of years--
Some on commission, some for the love of learning,
Some because they have nothing better to do
Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden
The drumming of the demon in their ears.

The British Museum Reading Room, Louis MacNeice.

graduate work

I finished a Master's in History at UTA Fall 1998.

I have some of my work preserved here for your use, edification or amusement (as the case may be). I do this because I believe that reading the work of one's peers can be a useful tool in constructing an education. I am aware, however, that there may be younger or lazier students out there who may wish to adapt this work to their own ends. I have some caveats for those students:

  1. My work is not particularly good or original. You can likely do better on your own.
  2. You can't get an education without doing the process (doing your own work in this case)
  3. Your instructors can find this page as easily as you did

These files are generally in both WP5.1 or Word and .txt formats. I've also included in the WP archives a macro that I wrote to convert the documents to ASCII while retaining the annotation (something WP5.1 will not naturally do, and you know scholarly work is worthless without annotation). You can download a zip archive that contains the .wpm, text source, and README.

Most of the works below are brief (pruned down to a couple of hundred words) reactions/reviews/precis of various histories or historical sources. You can eyeball them in .txt format, or pull down the .zip file which contains both the .txt version and the original WP5.1 source, with embedded graphics, etc. Some of the Word versions have extraneous material in them where the WP comments did not convert invisibly.

It is embarrassing at times to put up one's earlier work (typos, muddled thinking, flowery syntax) but I think I should do it anyway. The net has given so much to me, and I would like to give a little back. If you refer to any of this in your own work, please cite me and give the url to my homepage. Thanks!

Reviews and Reactions
The work in question Browse the .txt review Archive (WP5.1 and .txt formats)
Review: Keith Jenkins. Re-thinking History browse the .txt download the .doc file
review: CLAY MCSHANE. Down the Asphalt Path: the Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvii, 288. Review. browse the .txt download the .doc file
review: Darnton, Robert. "Workers Revolt," Chap. in The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Basic Books, 1984 browse the .txt download the .doc file
Review: Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Cityscapes After 1940. University of California Press. Berkeley: 1992. browse the .txt download the .doc file
review: Scott, Joan Wallach. "History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story". American Historical Review, XCIV (June 1989), 680-692. browse the .txt download the .doc file
review: Davis, Natalie Zemon. "On the Lame" browse the .txt download the .doc file
review: Eghigian, Greg. "From Soma to Polis: Pain and Suffering in Modern German National Identity." Paper at the Symposium on Pain & Suffering in History, UCLA., 13-14 March 1998. browse the .txt download the .doc file
review: Miller, Zane L. and Bruce Tucker. Changing Plans for America's Cities: Cincinnati's Over the Rhine and Twentieth Century Urbanism. The Ohio State University. Columbus: 1997. browse the .txt download the .doc file
precis: Goldfield, David R. "The Urban South: A Regional Framework." browse the .txt download the .doc file
Johnson, David A. Precis: Regional Planning for the Great American Metropolis: New York between the World Wars browse the .txt download the .wp file
Miller, Zane L. Bosses, Machines, and the American Urban Future. browse the .txt download the .wp file
12th Century Renaissance
Charles R. Young, editor.		 browse the .txt download the .zip file
Margaret Aston. The Fifteenth Century: the prospect of Europe. New York, W. W. Norton and Co., 1968. Pp. 216. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Pierre Abailard, Betty Radice The Letters of Abelard and Heloise browse the .txt download the .zip file
Bernard of Clairvaux by G. R. Evans (Translator), Ewert Cousins (Designer) browse the .txt download the .zip file
Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York: Modern Library (Random House). 1954. Pp. xi, 424. browse the .txt download the .zip file
ELIZABETH CAWTHON. "Thomas Wakley and the Medical Coronership-- Occupational Death and the Judicial Process." Medical History, 1986. 30: 191-202. browse the .txt download the .zip file
CLIFFORD GEERTZ. "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973. Pp. 412-53. browse the .txt download the .zip file
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA. Oration on the Dignity of Man. Washington D. C.: Regnery Gateway, 1956. browse the .txt download the .zip file
MILOVAN DJILAS. The New Class: Analysis of the Communist System. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957. Pp. vii, 214. browse the .txt download the .zip file
DAVID E. NARRETT. "Dutch Customs of Inheritance, Women, and the Law in Colonial New York City," in Authority and Resistance in Early New York, William Penack and Wright, Conrad Edick, eds. New York: New-York Historical Society, 1988. Washington D. C.: Regnery Gateway, 1956. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring. Boston: Houghton Miflin. 1989. Pp xvi, 396. browse the .txt download the .zip file
MISHA GLENNY. The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War. New York: Penguin, 1993. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp x, 363. browse the .txt download the .zip file
DAVID CROWE and JOHN KOLSTI, eds. The Gypsies of Eastern Europe. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1991. Pp. 194. $9.00. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Friedrich Heer. The Medieval World. browse the .txt download the .zip file
GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB. "Some reflections on the New History." AHR Forum, AHR, pp 661-70. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Huizinga, Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages. New York: Anchor Books (Doubleday). 1954. Pp 362. $8.95. browse the .txt download the .zip file
REGINE PERNOUD. Joan of Arc. Trans. Edward Hyams. 2nd issue. New York: Stein and Day, 1982. Pp. 287. $10.95. browse the .txt download the .zip file
B. A. WINDEATT. The Book of Margery Kempe. New York: Penguin, 1973. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Stone, Lawrence. "The Revival of Narrative." Chap. in The Past and the Present Revisited. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987 browse the .txt download the .zip file
LEWIS BAKER. "Uncle Will's Garden," in The Percys of Mississippi: Politics and Literature in the New South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1983. browse the .txt download the .zip file
JAMES BRUCE ROSS and MARY MARTIN McLAUGHLIN, eds. The Portable Renaissance Reader. New York: Penguin, 1986 (reprint). xii, 756 Pp. browse the .txt download the .zip file
STEPHEN FISCHER-GALATI. 20th Century Rumania. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University, 1991. Pp. x, 246. $9.00. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Southern's Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. browse the .txt download the .zip file
GARY D. STARK. "Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Literatur fuer die Geshichtswissenschaft: A Historian's View," in The German Quarterly. Winter, 1990. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Suetonius. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. New York: Modern Library (Random House). 1959. Pp. xvi, 361. browse the .txt download the .zip file
TACITUS. The Agricola and the Germania. New York: Viking Penguin. 1970. Pp. 175. $3.70. browse the .txt download the .zip file
LEON TROTSKY. The Balkan Wars 1912-13. New York: Pathfinder. 1980. browse the .txt download the .zip file
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. New York: Dell. 1962. Pp 575. browse the .txt download the .zip file
EDMUND R. BROWN, ed. The Book of Francois Villon. Brookline Village, MA: Branden Press, reprint. browse the .txt download the .zip file
MILOVAN DJILAS. Wartime. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Pp. x, 470. browse the .txt download the .zip file

Original work
Paper Browse the .txt Archive (WP5.1/Word and .txt formats)
Capstone written final for Bede Lackner - Roman hydrology browse the .txt download the .doc file
Capstone written final for Dennis Reinhartz - French Cartography browse the .txt download the .doc file
Capstone written final for Steven Reinhardt - Desacralization of the French Monarchy browse the .txt download the .doc file
HIST 5302 final, part a browse the .txt download the .doc file
HIST 5302 final, part b browse the .txt download the .doc file
HISTORICAL PROBLEM: OPINIONS ON THE ORIGIN OF COURTLY LOVE browse the .txt download the .zip file
French Catholics, the Church, and Belief browse the .txt download the .zip file
PATRONS, EGO, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF ROME browse the .txt download the .zip file
ROMANTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY AND DEPICTIONS OF LANDSCAPE: A SEARCH FOR CONFLUENCES browse the .txt download the .zip file
ARCHITECTURAL PATRONAGE IN THE FIFTEENTH AND EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURIES browse the .txt download the .zip file
Romola as historical novel browse the .txt download the .zip file

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