The Western Experience
Edited by N. G. L. Hammond (NHC Fellow, 1985–86), Mortimer Chambers, Theodore K. Rabb, Isser Woloch, and Raymond Grew
History
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
By Mia Bay (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as … Continued
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma
By Barbara Will (NHC Fellow, 2003–04)
Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South
By John Shelton Reed (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) If you think that nowadays the South is pretty much just a hot Midwest, meet John Shelton Reed: "Americans need to be reminded that there are good-sized regional differences in this country. So I'm volunteering to help with this reminding." Readers on both sides of the Late Unpleasantness … Continued
Women, Texts, and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World
Edited by Luis R. Corteguera (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) and Marta V. Vicente This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. The contributors examine women and the construction of gender thematically, dealing with the areas … Continued
A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Vol. 1, Hispanic and Francophone Regions
Edited by A. James Arnold (NHC Fellow, 1989–90), Julio Rodríguez-Luis, and Michael Dash This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by … Continued
A Troubled Feast: American Society since 1945
By William E. Leuchtenburg (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81) The essence of this book is suggested by its title. The "troubled" aspects may well be the more familiar—the frightful assassinations of public men, the malignant effects of two Asian wars, the endemic violence, the persistence of social ills. Acknowledgment of the reality of the … Continued
After the Constitution: Party Conflict in the New Republic
Edited by Lance Banning (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) This book introduces students to the wealth of modern writings on the early party struggle. It endows them with a basic understanding of the way various interpretations have developed and enables them to synthesize the facts and make informed judgments among competing views.
American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent
By Myra Jehlen (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) In exploring the origins and character of the American liberal tradition, Myra Jehlen begins with the proposition that the decisive factor that shaped the European settlers’ idea of “America” or the “American” was material rather than conceptual—it was the physical fact of the land. European settlers came to a continent on … Continued
Art and Resistance in Germany
Edited by Elizabeth Otto (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) and Deborah Ascher Barnstone In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers have sought to resist, confront, confound, mock, or call out … Continued