By Ben Kiernan (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also … Continued
By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
By Xiaoping Fang (NHC Fellow, 2019–20) Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the infected waters of southeastern coastal China. Confronted with a … Continued
By Francis Oakley (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1990–91) In the past decade, criticism of the state of undergraduate education in America has come from many directions and in many and various forms, from Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, to Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education, to Secretary of Education William J. Bennett's 1984 report "To … Continued
By Temma Kaplan (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. At a time when we're depressed about democracy, pessimistic about race relations, and anxious about feminism, Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through … Continued
By Mark Mazower (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away and the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale, as liberal democracy, communism and fascism struggled against one another for mastery of the world. … Continued
Edited by Leslie Tuttle (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Ann Marie Plane In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the machinations of demons, visits from the dead, or visions of the future. Interpreting their dreams in much the same ways … Continued
By Franz BorkenauEdited by Richard Lowenthal (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) A history of Western civilization that looks at each preceding era’s influence on the next, and predicts future developments in our culture.
By Norman A. Kutcher (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were … Continued
By Fiona Somerset (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) "Lollard" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought was condemned at the … Continued