William E. Watson was born in
New York City
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. He is Professor of History at
Immaculata University
Immaculata University is a private Roman Catholic university in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania. It was founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The university is composed of 1,427 traditional undergraduate and ...
in
Malvern, Pennsylvania
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. He received his PhD in
Medieval History
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from
the University of Pennsylvania
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. He is the director of the Duffy's Cut Project. He was a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council 2006–2007,
and was also the recipient of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Immaculata University for the year 2006–2007. Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Teachers' Institute at Immaculata University, "Duffy's Cut: Investigating Immigration, Industrialization and Illness in 19th-Century America" (July, 2016
Books
* Massacre at Duffy's Cut: Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad, William E. Watson and J. Francis Watson (The History Press, 2018
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* Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (Praeger, 200
* The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood, 199
* Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People, William E. Watson and Eugene J. Halus, Eds. (ABC-Clio, 2015
Scholarly articles
* "The Irish and Ireland," The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2017
* "Duffy's Cut," The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2015)
* “History and Memory at Duffy’s Cut,” Railroad History (Fall/Winter, 2014), no. 211, 76-87
* Watson's paper at the Immaculata University Chronicle of Faith Conference (April 4, 2008) is available
Some of his publications in medieval history are available
at
De Re Militari
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, the medieval
military history
Military history is the study of War, armed conflict in the Human history, history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to Politics, local and international relationships.
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society:
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Watson's paper at the University of Oregon conference The Millennium: Russia and Christianity AD 988-1988 (April 11, 1988)
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Dissertation
Watson's dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania:
References
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21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Living people
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Immaculata University faculty
Educators from New York City
Historians from New York (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male non-fiction writers