Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England, 1660-1753
By Lawrence Stone (NHC Fellow, 1990–91; 1991–92)
History
When the King Took Flight
By Timothy Tackett (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years … Continued
Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference
By Madeline C. Zilfi (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) Madeline C. Zilfi’s latest book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire. In a challenge to prevailing notions, her research shows that throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries female slavery was not only central to Ottoman practice, but a critical component of imperial … Continued
A Gentleman and an Officer: A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin’s Civil War
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
A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role
By John A. Thompson (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this challenging re-assessment of the … Continued
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Vol. 2, Essays on Sources and Methods
Edited by Sandra E. Greene (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2014–15), Martin A. Klein, and Alice Bellagamba What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? … Continued
American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900
By James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.
Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin
By John Beldon Scott (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ "painted in his own blood," the Shroud remains an object of intense debate and notoriety … Continued
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
By Marlene L. Daut (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment … Continued
Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I
By Leonard V. Smith (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. Leonard Smith, however, argues that a complex dialogue of resistance and negotiation existed between French soldiers and their own commanders. In this case study of wartime military culture, Smith analyzes … Continued