William E. Watson
{{short description|American historian}}
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| education = University of Pennsylvania, Eastern College
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| awards = Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Immaculata University
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William E. Watson was born in New York City. He is Professor of History at Immaculata University in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Medieval History from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Duffy's Cut Project. He was a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council 2006–2007,{{cite web |url= http://www.pahumanities.org/resources/cs_talks/history.php|title=Duffy's Cut |publisher=Pennsylvania Humanities Council |access-date=16 August 2010}} 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) [http://neh.immaculata.edu/]
Books
- Massacre at Duffy's Cut: Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad, William E. Watson and J. Francis Watson (The History Press, 2018) [https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467139083]
- {{cite book
| last =Watson | first =William E. |author2=J. Francis Watson |author3=John H. Ahtes |author4=Earl H. Schandelmeier
| title =The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut: The Irish who Died Building America's Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad
| publisher =Greenwood Publishing Group |location= Connecticut
| year =2006 | pages =216 | url =http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=58440
| isbn =0275987272
}}
- Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (Praeger, 2003)[http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=63602]
- The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood, 1998)[https://www.amazon.com/dp/031330162X]
- Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People, William E. Watson and Eugene J. Halus, Eds. (ABC-Clio, 2015) [http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOGreenwood/product.aspx?pc=A4164C]
Scholarly articles
- "The Irish and Ireland," The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2017) [http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/irish-the-and-ireland/]
- "Duffy's Cut," The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2015) [http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/duffys-cut/]
- "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 (4 April 2008) is available{{cite journal |last1=Watson |first1=William E.|year= 2009 |title=The Sisters of Charity, the 1832 Cholera Epidemic and Duffy's Cut
|journal= U.S. Catholic Historian |publisher= The Catholic University of America Press |volume= 27|issue= 4|pages=1–16
|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/us_catholic_historian/v027/27.4.watson.html|doi= 10.1353/cht.0.0022|s2cid=161238750|doi-access=free}}
Some of his publications in medieval history are available
at De Re Militari, the medieval military history society:
- {{cite journal |last1= Watson|first1=William E. |year=2001 |title=Ibn al-Athir on the Rus: A Commentary and Translation |journal=Canadian-American Slavic Studies |volume=35 |number=4, Winter |pages=423–438 |doi=10.1163/221023901X00037 |doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Watson |first1=William E.|year=1993 |title=The Battle of Tours-Poitiers Revisited |journal= Providence: Studies in Western Civilization |publisher= Providence College Press|volume= 1|issue= 2|pages=51–68 |url=http://www.medievalists.net/2009/12/27/the-battle-of-tours-poitiers-revisited}}
Watson's paper at the University of Oregon conference The Millennium: Russia and Christianity AD 988-1988 (11 April 1988)
- {{cite journal |last1=Watson |first1=William E.|year= 1990|title=Arabic Perceptions of Russia's Christian Conversion
|journal= The Millennium: Russia and Christianity AD 988-1988, ed. Albert Leong |publisher=St. Vladimir's Seminary Press |pages=33–40
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1s4ZbRhfaHsC&q=%22Arabic+Perceptions+of+Russia%27s+Christian+Conversion%22&pg=PA33|isbn=9780881410808}}
Dissertation
Watson's dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania:
{{cite book |last1=Watson |first1=William Ernest |author-link1=William E. Watson |title= The hammer and the crescent: Contacts between Andalusi Muslims, Franks, and their successors in three waves of Muslim expansion into Francia
|url= http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9112639/
|format= dissertation |date=1 January 1990 }}
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