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Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America

By Christopher C. Sellers (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs–not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness … Continued

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Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West

By Lynda L. Coon (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) In Dark Age Bodies Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of same-sex ascetic communities in northern Europe. … Continued

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Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece

By Charles Stewart (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) Charles Stewart tells the story of the inhabitants of Kóronos, on the Greek island of Naxos, who, in the 1830s, began experiencing dreams in which the Virgin Mary instructed them to search for buried Christian icons nearby and build a church to house the ones they found. Miraculously, they … Continued

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Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. 3 vols.

Edited by Shepard Krech, III (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1993–94; 2000–01), John Robert McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant In order to address today's global environmental challenges, it is important to understand them within the context of humankind's influences on its environment throughout the ages. The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History provides much needed explanation of urgent social and environmental … Continued

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Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn

By R. Larry Todd (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. … Continued

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Forget Colonialism?: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar

By Jennifer Cole (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared to have … Continued

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Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt

By Laura T. Murphy (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people around the world today are enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of … Continued

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George Washington Williams: A Biography

By John Hope Franklin (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 1981–82) In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book traces Franklin’s forty-year quest for Williams’s story, a story largely … Continued

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Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture

By Debora Kuller Shuger (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) When attempting to globally divide ideas into orthodox and subversive categories, it is not always clear what precisely is subversive to the dominant ideology and vice versa. Going against recent trends in English Renaissance studies, Deborah Shuger examines orthodox, rather than subversive, methods of thought in the English … Continued