By Carmela Vircillo Franklin (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) An examination of the cultural and codicological contexts in which the cult of Anastasius the Persian and its hagiographic tradition were disseminated from the Greek East to the Latin West. Ten critical editions are included.
By Conor Cruise O’Brien (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O’Brien’s examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of the French Revolution. O’Brien offers a provocative analysis of the supreme symbol of American history and political culture and challenges … Continued
By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that … Continued
Edited by Robert R. Edwards (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) and Stephen Spector (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. … Continued
By David Levering Lewis (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1983–84) David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University and was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 received the Bancroft, Parkman, and Pulitzer Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and … Continued
By Eugene D. Genovese (NHC Fellow, 1984–85; 1987–88) Eugene Genovese explores the efforts of American slaveholders to reconcile the intellectual dilemma in which they found themselves as supporters of freedom but defenders of slavery. In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Genovese argues that the spokespeople for the Southern position demonstrated much greater intellectual talent than has been … Continued
By Di Wang (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Wang looks at the transformation of these teahouses from private businesses to collective ownership and how state policy and the proprietors’ response to it changed the overall economic and social structure of the city. He uses this transformation to illuminate broader trends in China’s urban public life from 1950 … Continued
By Francis Oakley (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1990–91) The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. Oakley's ground-breaking study probes the continuities and discontinuities between medieval … Continued
By Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) The first study of how Mapuche shamans make history, this book challenges perceptions of shamans as being outside of history and examines how shamans themselves understand notions of civilization, savagery, and historical processes.
Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (NHC Fellow, 1995–96)