By Nancy Langston (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and … Continued
By Sarah Deutsch (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and poor, white and black, immigrant … Continued
By Blyden Jackson (NHC Fellow, 1981–82; 1982–83)
By W. Fitzhugh Brundage (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) This first book-length study of the Ruskin colonies shows how several hundred utopian socialists gathered as a cooperative community in Tennessee and Georgia in the late nineteenth century. The communitarians' noble but fatally flawed act of social endeavor revealed the courage and desperation they felt as they searched … Continued
Edited by Luise White (NHC Fellow, 1993–94; 2016–17), Stephen Miescher, and David William Cohen Until the advent of African independence, Africans were not considered fitting subjects for historical research and their words, voices, and experiences were largely absent from the continent's history. In thirteen lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, … Continued
By R. W. B. Lewis (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and Nancy Lewis This book brings together 160 famous American figures from Pocahontas to Louis Armstrong, providing visual and verbal portraits that illuminate their place in American life. The portraiture – painting, sculpture, photograph, or cartoon – is paired with literary images taken from eyewitness accounts, memoirs, … Continued
Edited by Theodore Evergates (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. … Continued
By Stephen D. White (NHC Fellow, 2012–13)
Edited by Florence Eliza Glaze (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Brian K. Nance
By David Gilmartin (NHC Fellow, 2001–02; 2017–18) The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world’s most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social, and … Continued