Edited by Christian Thorau (NHC Fellow, 2008–09), Julia Cloot, and Marion Saxer Contemporary composing in dialogue with older music in cooperation with the Institute for Contemporary Music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
By Arleen Marcia Tuchman (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In Science Has No Sex, Arleen Tuchman … Continued
Edited by Elizabeth A. Clark (NHC Fellow, 1988–89; 2001–02), Judith M. Bennett, Jean F. O’Barr, B. Anne Vilen, and Sarah Westphal-Wihl Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women’s activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Individual essays explore women’s challenges to … Continued
By Dewey W. Grantham (NHC Fellow, 1982–83)
By Adam Fairclough (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, when "the efforts of the slave regime to prevent black literacy meant that blacks . . … Continued
By Paul F. Berliner (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; 2010–11)
By Bruce Grant (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned … Continued
By Jack P. Greene (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1987–88; 2009–10) Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it … Continued
By Leonard V. Smith (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the … Continued
By John Dittmer (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) In the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of … Continued