The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone
By Michael A. Lofaro (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
History
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
By T. H. Breen (NHC Fellow, 1983–84; 1995–96) The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a … Continued
The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)
By Francis Oakley (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1990–91) Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth, showing how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development, … Continued
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
By Henry Petroski (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
By Mark Fiege (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that … Continued
The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics
By Robert W. Smith (NHC Fellow, 1992–93), Robert H. Kargon, and Joseph N. Tatarewicz Robert Smith's The Space Telescope sets the fascinating and disturbing history of this massive venture within the context of 'Big Science'. Launched at a cost of no more than $2 billion, the Space Telescope turned out to be seriously flawed by … Continued
The Trial in American Life
By Robert A. Ferguson (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) In a bravura performance that ranges from Aaron Burr to O. J. Simpson, Robert A. Ferguson traces the legal meaning and cultural implications of prominent American trials across the history of the nation. His interdisciplinary investigation carries him from courtroom transcripts to newspaper accounts, and on to the … Continued
The Writing of History and the Study of Law
By Donald R. Kelley (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) This second volume of essays by Professor Kelley takes the study of history as its starting point, then extends explorations into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought to confront some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences. The first group of papers examine the … Continued
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Edited by Mia Bay (NHC Fellow, 2009–10), Farah J. Griffin, and Martha Jones Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious … Continued
Veronica and Her Cloth: History, Symbolism, and Structure of a “True” Image
By Ewa Kuryluk (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)