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
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