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Faculty ProfileDr. George B. Kirsch
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Research and Scholarly Interests:United States social and cultural history, with special emphasis on American sports; the American Revolution; Nineteenth Century U.S. Urban History. Publications:Books: Jeremy Belknap: A Biography (Arno Press, 1982); The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-72 (University of Illinois Press, 1989); Sports in North America: A Documentary History, Vol. 3, 1840-60, Vol. 4, 1860-80 (Academic International Press, 1992, 1995); Voices from the Garden State: Documents in New Jersey History (Whittier Publications, 1993); co-editor of The West in Global Context: From 1500 to the Present (Prentice Hall, 1997); editor of Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States (Greenwood Press, 2000). Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime During the Civil War, Princeton University Press, 2003.) Also author of many scholarly articles and book reviews in Historical New Hampshire, The New England Quarterly, Church History, The Journal of Sport History, New Jersey History, The International Journal of the History of Sport, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Maryland Historian, and other journals. Other Activities:Consultant to Major League Baseball, Macmillan's Baseball Encyclopedia, reader for several commercial publishing companies and university presses, external consultant for undergraduate history programs. Courses Taught/Teaching:
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