Discovery & Inspiration

Discovery & Inspiration


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Howard Chiang, “Psychoanalysis in China”
October 17, 2022

In the early twentieth century, psychoanalytic id

Elizabeth S. Manley, “Imagining the Tropics: Women and Tourism in the Caribbean”
October 11, 2022

Widely understood as a destination for leisure an

Tony Frazier, “Slavery, English Law, and Abolition in the Eighteenth Century”
October 04, 2022

In the 1772 court case Somerset v Stewart, an E

Joy Connolly, “The Life of Roman Republicanism”
September 29, 2022

Joy Connolly (NHC Trustee), President, American C

Andrew Delbanco, “The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul”
September 29, 2022

Andrew Delbanco (NHC Fellow, 201314), Alexander

Cara Robertson, “The Trial of Lizzie Borden”
September 29, 2022

Cara Robertson (NHC Trustee; NHC Fellow, 200405;

Jane O. Newman, “The Decameron”
September 29, 2022

Jane O. Newman (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 201516), Pr

Mia Bay, “Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance”
September 29, 2022

Mia Bay (NHC Fellow, 200910), Roy F. and Jeannet

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America”
September 29, 2022

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (NHC Fellow, 199697), Julia

Martha S. Jones, “Vanguard”
September 29, 2022

Martha S. Jones (NHC Fellow, 2013–14), Society of…