By David Cannadine (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal … Continued
Edited and translated by Harold G. Marcus (NHC Fellow, 1985–86), Ezekiel Gebissa, and Tibebe Eshete
By João José Reis (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and Marcus J. M. de Carvalho This book, written in six hands by specialists in the history of slavery in Brazil, reconstructs the busy biography of Rufino José Maria and makes a comprehensive analysis of the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the 19th century. Born in … Continued
By Matthew Giancarlo (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England investigates the relationship between the development of parliament and the practice of English poetry in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. During this period, the bureaucratic political culture of parliamentarians, clerks, and scribes overlapped with the artistic practice of major poets … Continued
By Howard Erskine-Hill (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) This is a major study of the relation between poetry and politics from the 1688 Revolution to the early years of the nineteenth century, focusing in particular on the works of Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and Wordsworth. Building on his argument in Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden (also … Continued
By John Hope Franklin (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 1981–82) In Race and History, John Hope Franklin, one of the nation’s foremost historians, collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically and include pieces on southern history; significant but neglected historical figures; historiography; the connection between historical problems and contemporary issues; and … Continued
Edited by Hedva Ben-Israel (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Yehoshua Arieli has always thrived on the parry and thrust of vital intellectual interchange. He is most acute and at home in the formulation and analysis of complex problems, in the give and take of passionate and ongoing discussion. It is in this spirit that the editors of … Continued
Edited by Alison Keith (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) and J. C. Edmondson Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of … Continued
By Nancy MacLean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2021–22) and Edward H. Peeples Scalawag tells the surprising story of a white working-class boy who became an unlikely civil rights activist. Born in 1935 in Richmond, where he was sent to segregated churches and schools, Ed Peeples was taught the ethos and lore of white supremacy by every adult … Continued
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Michel-Rolph Trouillot places the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history, the Haitian Revolution, alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo and Christopher Columbus in this moving and thought-provoking meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Silencing … Continued