Veronica: Storia e simboli della “Vera immagine” di Cristo
By Ewa Kuryluk (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)
History
William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century
By Wilfrid R. Prest (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) This is the first comprehensive account of the life and writings of William Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England remains the most celebrated and influential text in the Anglo-American common-law tradition. Based on the widest possible range of archival, manuscript, and printed sources, it presents a … Continued
Woodrow Wilson
By John A. Thompson (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) Most famous in Europe for his efforts to establish the League of Nations under US leadership at the end of the First World War, Woodrow Wilson stands as one of America’s most influential and visionary presidents. A Democrat who pursued progressive domestic policies during his first term in … Continued
“In the Footsteps of the Ancients”: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
By Ronald G. Witt (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, … Continued
A History of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia. Vol. 2 Inner Eurasia from the Mongol Empire to Today, 1260 – 2000
By David Christian (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Beginning with the breakup of the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century, Volume II of this comprehensive work covers the remarkable history of “Inner Eurasia,” from 1260 up to modern times, completing the story begun in Volume I. Volume II describes how agriculture spread through Inner Eurasia, providing the … Continued
Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring
By Annegret Fauser (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. In the years since its premiere-as a dance work at the Library of Congress in 1944-it has become one of Copland's most widely … Continued
Alchemical Death and Resurrection: The Significance of Alchemy in the Age of Newton
By Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) A lecture sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in conjunction with the Washington Collegium for the Humanities Lecture Series: Death and the Afterlife in Art and Literature. Presented at the Smithsonian Institution, February 16, 1988.
An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe: Fourteen Original Essays
Edited by Paul E. Szarmach (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) The European Middle Ages bequeathed to the world a legacy of spiritual and intellectual brilliance that has shaped many of the ideals, preconceptions, and institutions we now take for granted. An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe examines this phenomenon in vivid and scholarly accounts of the lives … Continued
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Edited by Tatiana Seijas (NHC Fellow, 2016–17), Erica L. Ball, and Terri L. Snyder As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach … Continued
Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World
Edited by David M. Halperin (NHC Fellow, 1985–86), John J. Winkler, and Froma I. Zeitlin A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success — according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the … Continued