Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso
The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist.
Abolitionism
Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750–1830
Regenerating Romanticism demonstrates that some Romantic-era literary critics portrayed literature and science as in competition with one another.
Rethinking Medieval Ireland and Beyond: Lifecycles, Landscapes, and Settlements, Essays in Honor of T.B. Barry
This volume brings together scholarship from many disciplines, including history, heritage studies, archaeology, geography, and political science to provide a nuanced view of life in medieval Ireland and after.
Scholar-to-Scholar Talk: “Family as a Knowledge Methodology: Writing Intimate Histories”
On February 9, 2023, historian Blair LM Kelley (NHC Fellow, 2022–23) and political scientist Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (NHC Fellow, 2022–23) opened a conversation at the NHC about “Family as a Knowledge Methodology: Writing Intimate Histories.” Africana religious studies scholar LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant moderated the discussion. These distinguished scholars of African American life discuss how our families teach us about being free and being unfree. They ask, how do our family stories help us think about scholarly knowledge-making? What are the larger stakes of writing about Black families?
Lo que no sabemos de Malvinas: Las islas, su gente y nosotros antes de la guerra
Para varias generaciones de argentinos, las Malvinas están ligadas exclusivamente a la histórica reivindicación de su soberanía y, desde 1982, al conflicto armado con Gran Bretaña. Pero mucho de lo que hace a su historia anterior y posterior, y en especial al vínculo entre isleños y argentinos, ha quedado eclipsado. Sebastián Carassai despliega un relato de impresionante riqueza para mostrar lo que todavía no sabemos o no pudimos pensar sobre las islas.
The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker
This first biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915–1998) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the twentieth century.
Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood
In 1979, two young boys play Scrabble in a hot, dusty district of N‘Djamena, Chad, while around them war rages, apparently destroying all in its path: people, places, and memories.
Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race
Using a “sound studies” approach to reading slave narratives allows one to know better the lives of the enslaved people.
Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences
This history of reading tells the stories of neurodivergent readers and how dyslexia, hyperlexia, alexia, synesthesia, hallucinations, and dementia affect their ability to make sense of the printed word.
Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
By Sandra E. Greene (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2014–15) In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why … Continued