By Thomas J. Brown (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, Thomas J. Brown explains, … Continued
Edited by Charles Townshend (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) These essays by leading scholars of Northern Irish politics and Anglo-Irish relations explore the possibility of and prospects for political consensus in Ireland. The contributions embrace a number of approaches—historical, legal, sociological, and political—and examine the context and consequences of particular political initiatives and constitutional changes over the … Continued
By Jaroslav Folda (NHC Fellow, 1988–89; 1998–99; 2006–07) This book tells the story of the Architecture and the Figural Art produced for the Crusaders after the battle of Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, during the one hundred years that Acre was the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1191–1291. It is … Continued
By Richard A. Soloway (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that "like tends to beget like," eugenicists … Continued
By J. R. S. Phillips (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) Edward II (1284–1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his sporadic displays of ill-directed energy or a stubborn adherence … Continued
By David B. Quinn (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) and A. N. Ryan
Edited by Jack P. Greene (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1987–88; 2009–10) Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire … Continued
By Jane M. Gaines (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) In the silent era, American cinema was defined by two separate and parallel industries, with white and black companies producing films for their respective, segregated audiences. Jane Gaines’s highly anticipated new book reconsiders the race films of this era with an ambitious historical and theoretical agenda. Fire and … Continued
By Louis BergeronTranslated by R. R. Palmer (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country’s post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French … Continued
Edited by Jack M. Sasson (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, … Continued