The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy
By Paul F. Berliner (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; 2010–11)
History
The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus
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
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution
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
The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War
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
The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
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
The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe
By Mi Gyung Kim (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris—a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd that included Benjamin Franklin—highlighted celebrations of French military victory … Continued
The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris
By Patricia Leighten (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their engagement with radical politics. In this provocative … Continued
The Making of This Side of Paradise
By James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) The story of how Fitzgerald wrote and published the book is fascinating. In The Making of "This Side of Paradise", James West studies the inception, composition, publication, and textual history of the novel. He traces its growth from its earliest version, entitled "The Romantic Egotist," to its … Continued
The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940
By Daniel Horowitz (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
The Past Before Us: The Challenge of Historiographies of Late Antiquity
Edited by Richard Lim (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) and Carole Ellen Straw