PUBLICATIONS
Pictured below are links to my five current books - click on the images to find out more about each one. They are all available to order from the publishers' websites and most online book retailers - links are provided at the very bottom of each page (you can't order them on this website)...
Below these images is a less flashy list of my other publications and work in progress...
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American Imperialism £25.99 -
The United States, 1865-1920 £36.99 -
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William Howard Taft and the Philippines£72.50£52.86
BOOKS
Branford, Abigail and Adam Burns. Empire, Identity, and Education: How Students Really Learn about the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (under contract, forthcoming 2026).
Burns, Adam, ed., American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History - Volume III: From the Mexican-American War to the Spanish-American War, 1846–1898. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-0324-3606-7 (forthcoming, December 2025).
Burns, Adam and Rivers Gambrell, eds. Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-3995-0794-3. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sports-and-the-american-presidency.html
Burns, Adam. William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-6219-0569-1. https://utpress.org/title/william-howard-taft-and-the-philippines/
Burns, Adam. The United States, 1865–1920: Reuniting a Nation. New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-1384-8242-5. https://www.routledge.com/The-United-States-1865-1920-Reuniting-a-Nation/Burns/p/book/9781138482425
Burns, Adam. American Imperialism: The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1783–2013. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4744-0214-9. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-american-imperialism.html
ARTICLES
Burns, Adam. “Devolution in the UK: Decentralising or Consolidating Power?” Politics Review, 33:4 (April 2024). ISBN 978-1-3983-7449-2. https://www.hoddereducationmagazines.com/magazine/politics-review/33/4/devolution-in-the-uk/
Burns, Adam. “LGBTQ+ Rights in the USA: Life After Dobbs,” Politics Review, 33:2 (November 2023): 30-33. ISBN 978-1-3983-7449-2. https://www.hoddereducationmagazines.com/magazine/politics-review/33/2/lgbtq-rights-in-the-usa/
Burns, Adam. “Introduction: Racism, Protest, and the Antecedents of the Black Lives Matter Movement in the World of Sports,” Sport in History, 42:3 (July 2022): 315–319. ISSN: 1746-0263. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460263.2022.2106296
Burns, Adam. “Fit to Be President: The American Press, William Howard Taft and Physical Fitness,” European Journal of American Culture, 40:2 (June 2021): 121–134. ISSN: 1466-0407. https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ejac_00045_1
Burns, Adam. “From the Playing Fields of Rugby and Eton: The Transnational Origins of American Rugby and the Making of American Football,” Sport History Review, 52:2 (March 2021): 315–331. ISSN: 1087-1659. https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/shr/52/2/article-p315.xml
Burns, Adam. “Courting White Southerners: Theodore Roosevelt’s Quest for the Heart of the South,” American Nineteenth Century History, 20:1 (February 2019): 1–18. ISSN: 1466-4658. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2019.1573884
Burns, Adam. “Hosting Teacher Development at Historical Sites: The Benefits for Classroom Teaching,” Teaching History, 169 (December 2017): 35-42. ISSN: 0040-06109.
Burns, Adam and Gallimore, Robert. “Duplicated Debacles? Comparing the 1895-96 Jameson Raid and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion,” The Historian, 132 (February 2017): 22–27. ISSN: 0265-1076.
https://www.history.org.uk/student/resource/9072/comparing-the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-and-the-jameson
Burns, Adam. “Are LGBT schools the solution to homophobic bullying in Britain’s schools?” The Bridge: Journal of Educational Research-Informed Practice, 3:2 (December 2016): 35–43. ISSN 2056-6670.
Burns, Adam. “My Empire is of the Imagination: History Student Perceptions of the British Empire in Secondary School,” International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research, 14:1 (December 2016): 93–112. ISSN: 1472-9474. https://www.history.org.uk/publications/resource/9035/the-international-journal-volume-14-number-1
Burns, Adam. “The Jewel in the Curriculum: Teaching the History of the British Empire,” International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research, 12:2 (November 2014): 109–121. ISSN: 1472-9474.
Burns, Adam. “Adapting to Empire: William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Philippines, 1900-1908,” Comparative American Studies, 11:4 (December 2013): 418–433. ISSN: 1477-5700.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1477570013Z.00000000052?journalCode=ycas20
Burns, Adam. “Negotiating Feedback: Lecturer Perceptions of Feedback Dissatisfaction,” Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 6 (November 2013): 1–15. ISSN: 1759-667X. https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/article/view/150
Burns, Adam. “Retentionist in Chief: William Howard Taft and the Question of Philippine Independence, 1912-1916,” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 61:2 (June 2013): 163–192. ISSN: 2244-1093. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42634756
Burns, Adam. “A New Pacific Border: William H. Taft, the Philippines, and Chinese Immigration, 1898-1903,” Comparative American Studies, 9:4 (December 2011): 309–324. ISSN: 1477-5700.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/147757011X13045212814484
Burns, Adam. “Without Due Process: Albert E. Pillsbury and the Hoar Anti-Lynching Bill,” American Nineteenth Century History, 11:2 (June 2010): 233–252. ISSN: 1466-4658. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14664658.2010.481875
BOOK CHAPTERS
Burns, Adam. “Introducing American Studies Through A Level Politics,” in: M. Hunt and L. Plath, eds., Teaching American Studies in Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025/6.
Burns, Adam and Gambrell, Rivers. “Introduction: The Sporting Presidency,” pp. 1–11 in: A. Burns & R. Gambrell, eds., Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-3995-0794-3. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781399507967-002/html
Burns, Adam. “From Wilson to Dubya: The Curious Case of Presidents and Rugby,” pp. 145–164 in: A. Burns & R. Gambrell, eds., Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-3995-0794-3. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781399507967-009/html
Burns, Adam. “Race, Ethnicity and Diversity: British Imperial History and the Secondary School Curriculum,” pp. 59–77 in: P. Miller and C. Callender, eds., Race, Education and Educational Leadership in England: An Integrated Analysis. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-3500-6859-9. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/race-education-and-educational-leadership-in-england-an-integrated-analysis/ch3-race-ethnicity-and-diversity-british-imperial-history-and-the-secondary-school-curriculum
Burns, Adam. “Economic Imperialism in Cuba, 1898-2017: Hegemony and Embargo,” pp. 47–56 in: C. Grocott and J. Grady, eds., The Continuing Imperialism of Free Trade: Developments, Trends and the Role of Supranational Agents. London: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-1383-0108-5. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203732809-5/economic-imperialism-cuba-1898%E2%80%932017-adam-burns
Burns, Adam. “Imperial Designs: Studying the History of the British Empire in the Sixth Form,” pp. 24–34 in B. Morris, T. Perry and M. Hand, eds., Papers from the [13th University of Birmingham] Education Doctoral Research Conference. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-7044-2856-0.
Burns, Adam. “Half a Southerner: President Theodore Roosevelt, African Americans and the South,” pp. 198–215 in S. Ricard, ed., A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4443-3140-0. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781444344233.ch12
ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES
Burns, Adam. “Farmers’ Alliance and People’s Party,” “NAACP,” “Niagara Movement,” “Progressive ‘Bull Moose’ Party,” and “Socialist Party of America,” in: B. Harward & S. Ainsworth eds., Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations that Shaped America: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-4408-5196-4. https://www.abc-clio.com/products/a5252c/
Burns, Adam. “Crown Colonies,” “Chartered Companies,” “Greater Britain,” and “Social Darwinism” in: M. Doyle ed., The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-4408-4197-2. https://www.abc-clio.com/products/a4964c/
Burns, Adam. “Taft, William Howard” in: C. Magoc & D. Bernstein, eds., Imperialism and Expansionism in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection, Volume 3. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-61069-429-2. https://www.abc-clio.com/products/a4128c/
ONLINE PIECES AND OP-EDS
Burns, Adam. "Comparing the Trump-DeSantis Race to the Republicans' 1912 Debacle is a Stretch... Right?" History News Network (HNN) (June 4, 2023), http://hnn.us/article/185814
Jones, Jenni; Adam Burns; Emma Edwards; Alex Phillips and Judith Hamilton, “Busting the Myths of Feedback,” Advance HE (November 2022), https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/busting-myths-feedback
Burns, Adam. “The Two Anniversaries that Everybody’s Forgotten,” History News Network (HNN) (March 26, 2017) available at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165482
Burns, Adam. “The Loser Takes It All: The Electoral College Strikes Again,” History News Network (HNN) (November 15, 2016) available at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164414
Burns, Adam. “‘A fit of absence of mind?’ Learning about British imperialism in the twenty-first century,” Frontier, 2 (June 2016): 16–19, available at: https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/frontier/article/view/557
Burns, Adam. “Expanding Postgraduate Learning Communities,” Research Intelligence, 124 (August 2014): 16. ISSN: 0307-9023, available at: https://www.bera.ac.uk/researchers-resources/publications/summer-2014
Burns, Adam. “April 1912 Didn't Just See the Sinking of the Titanic -- The Fortunes of the GOP Sank, Too,” History News Network (HNN) (April 2, 2012) available at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/145389
Burns, Adam. “Winning ‘Hearts and Minds’: American Imperial Designs of the Early Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,” History & Policy (October 2011) available at: https://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/winning-hearts-and-minds-american-imperial-designs-of-the-early-twentieth-a
Burns, Adam. “100 Years of a Presidential Baseball Tradition,” History News Network (HNN) (April 19, 2010) available at: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125434
Burns, Adam. “2008 Is a Long Ways Away from 1908, But Still…” History News Network (HNN) (November 3, 2008) available at: http://hnn.us/articles/56193.html
BOOKS REVIEWS AND REVIEW ARTICLES
Book Review: David Steele, It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2022), reviewed for: Sport in History, (2023 online). ISSN: 1746-0263.
Book Review: Benjamin R. Justesen, Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020), reviewed for: Journal of Southern History, 88:2 (May 2022), 409–410. ISSN 0022-4642
Book Review: Kenneth Cohen, They Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017), reviewed for: Sport in History, (2020 online). ISSN: 1746-0263.
Book Review: Leia Castañeda Anastacio, The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State: Imperial Rule and the American Constitutional Tradition in the Philippine Islands, 1898–1935 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), reviewed for: Journal of American History, 106:1 (June 2019): 216. ISSN: 0021-8723.
Book Review: Michael Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), reviewed for: European Journal of American Culture, 38:1 (March 2019): 97–99. ISSN: 1466-0407.
Book Review: Ira Berlin, The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2015), reviewed for: Journal of American Studies, 53:1 (February 2019): 298–299. ISSN: 0021-8758.
Book Review: W.E.B. Du Bois, edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler, The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015) reviewed for: European Journal of American Studies, (November 2017) available at: http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12343. ISSN: 1991-9336.
Book Review: Zeese Papanikolas, An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015), reviewed for: History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 102:350 (April 2017): 346–348. ISSN: 1468-229X.
Book Review: Alyosha Goldstein (Ed.), Formations of United States Colonialism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), reviewed for: History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 101:344 (January 2016): 166–168. ISSN: 1468-229X.
Book Review: Kenneth Baker, 14-18: A New Vision for Secondary School (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), reviewed for: Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 43:2 (March 2015): 343–344. ISSN: 1741-1432.
Book Review: Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), reviewed for: Journal of American Studies, 47:4 (November 2013): e104. EISSN: 1469-5154.
Book Review: Susan K. Harris, God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), reviewed for: Journal of American Studies, 46:3 (August 2012): 774–775. ISSN: 0021-8758.
Book Review: Erika Lee and Judy Yung, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), reviewed for: American Studies Today (March 2012). ISSN: 2044-804X.
Book Review: Ian Tyrrell, Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s Moral Empire (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010), reviewed for: Journal of American Studies, 46:1 (February 2012): e8. EISSN: 1469-5154.
Review Article: Burns, Adam [with Matthew Dziennik, Robert Mason, Finn Pollard] ‘The United States of America,’ Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 95 (2011): 115–148. ISSN: 1467-8314.
Review Article: Burns, Adam [with Matthew Dziennik, Robert Mason, Finn Pollard] ‘The United States of America,’ Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 94 (2010): 171–206. ISSN: 1467-8314.
Book Review: Dylan Rodriguez, Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), reviewed for: Journal of American Studies, 44:3 (August 2010): 645–646. ISSN: 0021-8758.
Review Article: Burns, Adam [with Matthew Dziennik, Robert Mason, Finn Pollard] ‘The United States of America,’ Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 93 (2009): 147–175. ISSN: 1467-8314.
Book Review: Paul Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), reviewed for: Journal of American Studies, 43:1 (April 2009): 142–143. ISSN: 0021-8758.
Review Article: Burns, Adam [with Robert Mason, Kirsten Phimister, Finn Pollard] ‘The United States of America,’ Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 92 (2008): 168–194. ISSN: 1467-8314.
Book Review: Christopher Waldrep and Michael Bellesiles (eds.), Documenting American Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), reviewed for: American Studies Today, 17 (September 2008). ISSN: 2044-804X.
Book Review: Maureen A. Flanagan, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms 1890s-1920s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), reviewed for: American Politics Review, 50 (December 2007).
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