I monasteri femminili come centri di cultura fra Rinascimento e Barocco: Atti del convegno storico internazionale, Bologna, 8-10 dicembre 2000
By Gianna Pomata (NHC Fellow, 2003–04)
History
Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War
By Margaret Humphreys (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Black soldiers in the American Civil War were far more likely to die of disease than were white soldiers. In Intensely Human, historian Margaret Humphreys explores why this uneven mortality occurred and how it was interpreted at the time. In doing so, she uncovers the perspectives of mid-nineteenth-century physicians and … Continued
Jonathan Edwards’s Moral Thought and Its British Context
By Norman Fiering (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) The problems of moral philosophy were a central preoccupation of literate people in eighteenth-century America and Britain. It is not surprising, then, that Jonathan Edwards was drawn into a colloquy with some of the major ethicists of the age. Moral philosophy in this era was so all-encompassing in its … Continued
Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action
By Gastón Espinosa (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) Every year an estimated 600,000 U.S. Latinos convert from Catholicism to Protestantism. Today, 12.5 million Latinos self-identify as Protestant—a population larger than all U.S. Jews and Muslims combined. Spearheading this spiritual transformation is the Pentecostal movement and Assemblies of God, which is the destination for one out of four … Continued
Life and Death in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Edited by Rona Goffen (NHC Fellow, 1986–87), Ronald G. Witt (NHC Fellow, 1983–84), and Marcel Tetel
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital
By Martin Summers (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian residents in the nation's capital, the institution … Continued
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 1, The Private Years
By Charles Capper (NHC Fellow, 1994–95; 2002–03) With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the firsthand sources, many of them never before used, this volume … Continued
Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900
By Julia A. Clancy-Smith (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean … Continued
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
Edited by Timothy D. Taylor (NHC Fellow, 1999–00), Mark Katz, and Tony Grajeda This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War, by which time … Continued
Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence
By Sharon T. Strocchia (NHC Fellow, 1998–99; 2015–16) The 15th century was a time of dramatic and decisive change for nuns and nunneries in Florence. In the course of that century, the city’s convents evolved from small, semiautonomous communities to large civic institutions. By 1552, roughly one in eight Florentine women lived in a religious … Continued