By John G. Clark (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) This book traces the development of the fossil-fuel industries during the subject period, more or less chronologically emphasizing the vicissitudes of federal regulations especially during periods of the two World Wars and the depression. The archival manuscript collections are listed along with notes for each chapter in a … Continued
By David Ringrose (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) This innovative book looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion—which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony—in order to explore the more human and realistic dimensions of European experiences abroad. David Ringrose argues that Early Modern Europe was relatively poor and that its industrial and military technology, while … Continued
By Anthony J. La Vopa (NHC Fellow, 1983–84; 1998–99) In this biographical study of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte from his birth in 1762 to the crisis in his university career in 1799, Professor La Vopa uses Fichte's life and thought to deepen our understanding of German society, culture, and politics in the age … Continued
By Elizabeth McHenry (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, … Continued
By Dan T. Carter (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) In this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan T. Carter examines race as an issue in presidential politics. Drawing on his broad knowledge of recent political history, he traces the “counterrevolutionary” response to the civil rights movement since Wallace’s emergence on the national scene in 1963, … Continued
By Rona Goffen (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Giovanni Bellini, a master of the Venetian school of painting, is one of the most important figures in Italian Renaissance art. This lavishly illustrated book is the first major study to consider the artist’s work both stylistically and in its full cultural and historical context. Born in the early … Continued
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti’s hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and political, … Continued
Edited by Gianna Pomata (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) and Nancy G. Siraisi The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines—including natural history, medicine, antiquarianism, and philology—indicates how … Continued
By Paula J. Giddings (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings Ida B. … Continued
Edited by Kathleen DuVal (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and John DuVal This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic … Continued