By Emília Viotti da Costa (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) This classic work is must reading for anyone who would understand Brazil and Latin America, past and present. First published in 1985 and now expanded to include a new chapter on women in Brazilian history, the book explores the social, political, economic, and intellectual currents that shaped … Continued
By Carolyn Merchant (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and conservation? This is the only major reference work to explore all the major themes and debates of the burgeoning field of environmental history. … Continued
By Charles Royster (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came … Continued
By Padraig A. Breatnach (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) Led by Brother Míchél Ó Cléirigh, O.F.M., the Four Masters worked together between 1630 and 1636 to compile a series of historical tracts and records that are among the most important Irish writings from any century. No part of these productions was destined to appear in print in … Continued
Edited by David Warren Sabean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09), Jason Philip Coy, and Benjamin Marschke The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, … Continued
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