By Nancy MacLean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2021–22) Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a … Continued
By Lewis M. Dabney (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history … Continued
By Paul Strohm (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) After the dethronement and subsequent murder of Richard II, the usurping Lancastrian dynasty faced an exceptional challenge. Interrupting a long period of Plantagenet rule, Henry IV and Henry V needed not only to establish physical possession of the English throne, but to occupy it symbolically as well. In this … Continued
Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) and Daniel Nugent Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. While most accounts have emphasized either the role of peasants and peasant rebellions or that of state formation in Mexico’s past, these … Continued
By R. Jackson Wilson (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
By Leonard V. Smith (NHC Fellow, 1993–94), Annette Becker, and Helen McPhail France and the Great War tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. In this 2003 book, Leonard Smith and his co-authors synthesize many years of scholarship, examining the origins of … Continued
By John Hope Franklin (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 1981–82) Steven Marcus discusses Freud's famous cases "Dora" and "The Rat Man," as well as the Freud–Fliess correspondence, the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and the evolution of Freud's notion of the superego. Through his close reading of various of Freud's theoretical and clinical texts, … 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 of confessors.
By Isabel Wünsche (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) In her book, Isabel Wünsche explores the question of Russia's participation in the project of European modernism, in particular dealing with the interrelationship between universal claims and national cultural values in science, intellectual history and art. With the victory over Napoleon, Russia had risen not only geographically, but also … Continued
By Fernando de Alva IxtlilxóchitlEdited and translated by Peter B. Villella (NHC Fellow, 2018–19), Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, and Pablo García Loaeza A descendant of both Spanish settlers and Nahua (Aztec) rulers, Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578–1650) was an avid collector of indigenous pictorial and alphabetic texts and a prodigious chronicler of the … Continued