By Michael K. Honey (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty … Continued
Edited by Trevor Burnard (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) The book, “Hearing Slaves Speak” was launched on Sunday at the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Hall in New Amsterdam. The historical work, put together by former Guyanese University of Warwick Professor, Trevor Burnard, is a compilation of testimonies from enslaved people about their conditions and feelings under slavery. … Continued
By Jeremy D. Popkin (NHC Fellow, 2000–01; 2012–13) Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are … Continued
By T. H. Breen (NHC Fellow, 1983–84; 1995–96) How we make history-and what we then make of it-is engagingly dramatized in T. H. Breen's portrait of a 350-year-old American community faced with the costs of its "progress." In the particulars of one town's struggle to check development and save its natural environment, Breen shows how … Continued
By K. Theodore Hoppen (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) As part of the Studies in Modern History series, this textbook has been written primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate students on British, European and colonial history courses. The authors take a broad approach, combining the current state of knowledge in each area with their own research and judgements. … Continued
By Einar Thomassen (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) The history of Christianity from the beginning to the present day can be told in many ways and seen from many points of view. This book brings theology and the science of religion together in the description of the Christian religion and its history. Christianity as it has been practiced and … Continued
Edited by Claude Reichler (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) and Roland Ruffieux
By Richard W. Pfaff (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) This book includes four hitherto unpublished papers together with a substantial introductory historiographical and bibliographical overview. Many of the studies concern the liturgical views of figures like Lanfranc, St Hugh of Lincoln, and William of Malmesbury (an edition of William’s Abbreviatio Amalarii is included) and the ways Thomas … Continued
By Thomas Cripps (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. Making Movies Black shows how movies anticipated and helped form America's changing … Continued
By Josiah Ober (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politics and the nature of communication between elite and … Continued