By Jeffrey C. Stewart (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of young artists like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro—the gender ambiguous, transformative, artistic African Americans whose art would subjectivize … Continued
By Daina Ramey Berry (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2008–09) In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives—including … Continued
By Miguel La Serna (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) and Orin Starn On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The … Continued
Edited by Daniel C. Snell (NHC Fellow, 1989–90), Mark E. Cohen, David B. Weisberg, and William W. Hallo
By Paul F. Grendler (NHC Fellow, 1988–89; 1989–90) Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time—including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei—the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in … Continued
By Gerald Early (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 2001–02) The fascinating and turbulent black America of the 1960s emerges in these essays, through the lenses of dissent and its contradictions. Gerald L. Early revisits this volatile time in American history, when class, culture, and race ignited conflagrations of bitterness and hatred across the nation. The lives of … Continued
By Candace Bailey (NHC Fellow, 2019–20) Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand its meaning in … Continued
By Michael Philip Penn (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2012–13) The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, Syriac Christians wrote the … Continued
By Stanley Chojnacki (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those … Continued
Edited by Orville Vernon Burton (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) and Judith N. McArthur In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina, and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army. He was thirty-five years old, a wealthy planter, and the owner of sixty-one slaves when he joined Wade Hampton's elite Legion … Continued