By Nancy F. Cott (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and set out impulsively to see the changing world. In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott follows four who pursued global news — from contested Palestine to revolutionary China, from Stalin’s Moscow … Continued
By John N. King (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The most complex and best-illustrated English … Continued
Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar (NHC Fellow, 2007–08), Vasant Kaiwar, and Thierry Labica This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism. … Continued
By Gregory of ToursTranslated by Raymond Van Dam (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) The first translation into English of one of Gregory’s eight books of miracle stories, which contains a series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of martyrs.
By John Higham (NHC Fellow, 1987–88; 1988–89) This book presents three decades of writings by one of America’s most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an … Continued
Edited by Edward Muir (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) and Guido Ruggiero This work demonstrates how a sophisticated analysis of documents once thought beneath scholarly notice–criminal records–can offer stunning new insights into the past.
By Kenneth Mills (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The ecclesiastical investigations into Indian religious error — the Extirpation of idolatry — that occurred in the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Archdiocese of Lima come to life here as the most revealing sources on colonial Andean religion and culture. Focusing on a largely neglected period, 1640 to 1750, and moving beyond portrayals that often view … Continued
By Kathryn Burns (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people’s words in official forms and make them legally true. Thus the first thing Columbus did on American shores in … Continued
By Nicholas Canny (NHC Fellow, 1986–87)
By John F. Matthews (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The Theodosian Code—a collection of Roman imperial legislation of the period from Constantine the Great to Theodosius II—is a fundamental source for understanding the legal, social, economic, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire. More than 2,700 of the 3,500 original texts of the Code survive, … Continued