Journal
of Baltic Studies, January
1991-June 1994, with Roger Noël, then James Betts; associate editor,
1994-present; book review editor, 1994-2000.
Proceedings
of the Illinois Medieval Conference, 9(1992), with Gregory Guzman of
Bradley University.
ARTICLES
"Writing
Family History," The
Heritage of Vermilion County [Danville, Illinois], (Spring, 1971), 10-11.
"Saint
Mary and the Dragon-Killer," Marian
Library Studies, 2(1971), 89-94.
"The Original Juvinall
Home," The Heritage
of Vermilion County, (Summer, 1972), 14.
"Polybius
Visits Campus," Educational
Record, 53(Summer, 1972), 256-7.
"I Have Almost Become Desperate Over
the Thought of Dying a Poor Man," True
West, 20(Oct., 1972), 30-33, 58-9.
"The
Half-Man Syndrome," Educational
Record, 53(Fall, 1972), 337-8.
"That
Joint Down by the River." Frontier Times,
47(Nov. 1973), 13, 50-1.
"The Juvenal Trail Drive of 1870,"
Kansas Historical
Quarterly, 39(Summer 1973), 200-205.
"On
the Trail of Gabe Hans,” Old
West, 9(Winter, 1973), 26-7, 64.
"The
Organization of the Defense of the Livonian Frontier," Speculum, 48(July,
1973), 525-32.
"The
Robbery of the Sylvan Bank," Old
West, 10(Fall, 1973), 24-5, 38.
"Religion in the Medieval Baltic,"
Lituanus,
19/1(1973), 49-54.
"The
Military Occupation of Semgallia in the Thirteenth
Century," Baltic
History (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1974), 21-34.
"The Prussian-Lithuanian
Frontier of 1242," Lituanus, 21/4(1975), 5-18.
"Martin of Golin,"
Lituanus,
22/4(1976), 45-59.
"Redating the Expedition of Anno of Sangerhausen
to Sambia," Journal
of Baltic Studies, 7/4(1976), 320-29.
"Henry Monte and the Prussian Rising of 1260,"
Lituanus,
24/2(1978), 5-20.
"Monmouth
College in the Civil War," Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, 71(February 1978), 13-21.
"When
the Wild West Went to Florence," Illinois
Quarterly, 40(Spring 1978), 5-21; revised text in Festschrift for
Janet Smith (Monmouth College 2012).
"The
Diplomacy of the Teutonic Knights at the Curia," Journal
of Baltic Studies, 9/2(1978), 116-28.
"The
Wendish Princes and the `Drang
nach Osten,'" Journal of Baltic Studies,
9/3(1978), 225-244.
"The Sense of Humor
among the Teutonic Knights of the Thirteenth Century," Illinois
Quarterly, 42(1979), 40-7.
"Wyatt Earp was born here:
Monmouth and the Earps, 1845-1859," Western Illinois Regional
Studies, 3(Fall, 1980), 154-67.
"The Nationality of Balthasar
Russow," Journal
of Baltic Studies, 12/2(1981), 160-172. (Shared
1983 Award of Dr. Arthur Puksov Foundation for
original research in Estonian history.)
"The
Pursuit of Knowledge," "Off to War," and "Native
Sons." Born of
the Prairie [Sesquicentennial History of Monmouth, Illinois]
(Monmouth, Illinois, 1981), 89-93, 109-114, 115-118.
"He
Died in Mexico," True
West, 28(Dec. 1981), 54-6.
"The
Correct Translation of `Ruce'," Journal of Baltic Studies,
13/1(1982), 12-18.
"Locating
the Castle of St. George in Karsova
(1259-1260)." Lituanus, 29/1(1983), 5-19.
"Balts and Baltic Peoples," The Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982f), II, 61-8.
"The
Origin of the Livonian War, 1558," Lituanus,
29/3(1983), 11-25.
"When
was Chaucer's Knight in `Ruce'?" Chaucer Review,
18(1984), 347-53.
With
Jerry C. Smith, "Peter von Suchenwirt", Lituanus, 31/2(1985), 5-26.
"How
to Teach the Crusades," Teaching
the Middle Ages (ed. Robert Graybill et
al.
"Lübeck," The
Dictionary of the Middle Ages, VII,
679-84.
"Der Deutsche Orden in amerikanischen Schulbücher,"
Beiträge zur
Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens (Ed. Udo Arnold. Marburg: Elwert,
1986) [Quellen und
Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens], I, 111-122.
"The Conversion of Lithuania," Lituanus,
33/4(1987), 12-22.
"The
Teutonic Order at the Council of Constance." Estudios de Historia de la Iglesia y de las Instituciones Eclesiasticas en Europa
(ed. Manuel Peláez. Barcelona, 1989), XIV,
4043-63.
"The
Teutonic Order and the Christianization of Lithuania." La cristianizazione
della Lituania
(ed. Paulius Rabikauskas.
"Valdemar II" and "Wladislaw
Jagiello and Jadwiga," Great Lives from History:
Ancient and Medieval Series (Frank Magill, ed. 5 vols. Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey: Salem Press, 1988), V,
2202-5, 2344-8.
"Roger
Bacon and the Teutonic Knights," Journal
of Baltic Studies, 19/4(1988), 331-38.
"Nicholaus Copernicus," Great Lives from History: Renaissance and Modern (5
vols. Ed. Frank Magill.
“The
Temperance Movement in Monmouth, 1857-1859,
"The Amazin'
Albert Morris Bagby," Monmouth
Newse, 5/2(winter 1990), 16-17.
"Monmouth's
Washington (
"Renaissance
Humanism in
"Renaissance Humanism in Prussia: the
Court of the Grandmasters," Journal
of Baltic Studies, 22/2(1991), 95-122.
"Straw
for our Bricks: what we need to teach today," Faculty Forum [Monmouth College],
4(1991), 3-7.
"Renaissance
Humanism in
"The
Early Roman Republic: Virtue as the Basis of Government," Foxfestschrift. A Collection of Writings in Honor of Bernice L. Fox on Her 80th
Birthday (ed. Thomas J. Sienkewicz. Monmouth:
"Implications of the Past for
the Future of the Baltic States," Lituanus,
37\4(1991), 65-75; reprinted in
"Post-Revolutionary Government
in America and in the Baltic States," Lituanus,
38\3(1992), 88-92.
"Characteristics
of medieval warfare in the Baltic," Der Deutsche Orden
in Livland (ed. Norbert Angermann. Köln: Böhlau,
scheduled 1994) [Quellen
und Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens] in press.
"Medieval Baltic Numismatics," Journal of Baltic Studies,
24/1(Spring 1993), 37-52.
"Ethnic Tensions in the
Baltic," Lituanus,
39/1(Spring 1993), 67-76.
"The Teutonic Knights and the Baltic Crusades,"
Historian,
56/3(Spring 1994), 519-530.
"Parallels in Ibsen's
The Doll House," Festschrift
in honor of Charles Speel (Monmouth
College, 1995), 389-395.
"The People versus
Nicholas P. Earp,"
"The
Renaissance in
"Teutonic
Knights Bring Baltic Region Under Catholic
Control," "Battle of Tannenberg,"
"Council of Constance," and "Second Peace of Thorn," Chronology
of European History (3 volumes.
"Rethinking
the Crusades," Perspectives [newsletter
of the American Historical Association, 36/7 (October 1998), 25-29.
"Victims of
the Baltic Crusade," Journal of Baltic Studies, 29/3 (Fall
1998), 195-212.
"An Historical Overview of the Crusade to Livonia." originally
on ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
"Monmouth College at the Turn of the
Century," Scots
Newse (Spring 1999), 16-19.
"The
Teutonic Knights", in Medieval
Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An
Encyclopedia (
"Deutschorden" in Medieval
"Teutonic
Knights’ Wars with Poland (1309-1466)" and "Thirteen Years’ War
(1454-1466)", in Magill’s Guide to Military History (ed. John
Powell.
"The
Frontier Thesis and the Baltic Crusade," Crusade and Conversion on the
Baltic Frontier, 1140-1500 (Ed. Alan V. Murray.
"Teutonic
Knights' Wars with Poland (1309-1466)," "Thirteen Years' War
(1454-1466)", and "Nicopolis (1396)"
in Magill's Guide to Military History (ed. John Powell.
"The Renaissance in
“Grounds for Caution,”
Old West Chronicle, 3 (April 2002), 1-4.
“Reflections
on the Process of Transition 1919-1922 and 1989-1922”, Lituanus, 49:1 (2003), 39-47.
“Reflections of the Process of Transition 1919-1922 and 1989-1992”, Lituanus, 49/1 (Spring 2003), 39-47.
“The Livonian War 1558-1583”, Great Events from History: 1454-1600 (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2004), .
“Crusades in Europe,” Chapter 6 of Crusades: the Illustrated History (London: Duncan Baird, 2004), 128-141.
"How to Publish," Faculty Forum (March 2006).
"Sam Thompson", Faculty Forum (Fall 2006).
"Roger Bacon", "The Baltic Crusades:
“How to Publish,” Faculty Forum (Monmouth College, 2006).
Baltics: “Early and High Medieval,” “Late Medieval (1300-1500)”, “Saule,
Battle of,” “Swantopelk, Duke of Pomerania,” in Medieval Warfare and
Military Technology (Oxford, 2009)
“Lübeck,” in Great Cities in History (London: Thames and London,
2009), 124-7.
“The Teutonic Knights and the Northern Crusades,” The Medieval World At
War (London: Thames & Hudson, 2009).
“Tannenberg Today,” Proceedings of Grunwald Conference 2010
Monmouth, the Monmouth College Magazine, 26/1 (Winter 2011), 28-29.
“The Prince
of Monmouth Athletics,”
Monmouth, the Monmouth College Magazine, 26/1 (),