Edited by Karen Halttunen (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) and Lewis Perry American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes. This volume surveys the moral landscape of the American past from slavery to the Vietnam War. Bringing together fourteen of the most … Continued
By Linda K. Kerber (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) This pioneering study redefines women’s history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber’s analysis reaches from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their … Continued
Edited by Brenda Deen Schildgen (NHC Fellow, 2005–06), Gang Zhou, and Sander L. Gilman Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances outside the Italian and Italian prompted European Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative … Continued
Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) and Bill E. Lawson Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics, artists, and activists living and working in the UK and the US. For the first time, contributors map Douglass’ eclectic and experimental visual archive across … Continued
By Dyan Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1997–98; 2012–13) Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy’s most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women’s claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics … Continued
Edited by David Strand (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard This book examines the important theme of reform and reconstruction in twentieth century China, focusing particularly on the Deng era. Chapters are organized around three crucial issues: (i) the extent and limits of state control over economic, social, and cultural life; (ii) prospects for … Continued
By Karen Hagemann (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813–15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography and memory. Although these conflicts have been analyzed in thousands of books … Continued
By Ewa Kuryluk (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)
Edited by Lucy Carroll Stout (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) Abridged judgements with comments and contributed articles
Translated by E. P. Sanders (NHC Fellow, 1993–94)