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Pain, Penance, and Protest arose from a resolve to reconcile the legal historical world of medieval England with the medieval history that I know so well through my teaching and research. Perhaps because legal history tends to be dominated by lawyers rather than by historians, I have often felt that the legal histories I read […]
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As I was conceptualizing a project on death in early 2016, a friend and colleague I was visiting in Jerusalem mentioned a sloppy online essay that had drawn the ire of Palestinian feminists. The piece essentially argued that Palestinian women had difficulty receiving an abortion in the West Bank because of “culture.” Thinking about abortion […]
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How and why did the Haitian Revolution happen? How did enslaved people from varying backgrounds come together to orchestrate the most radical political event of the modern era – the only revolt of enslaved people to abolish slavery, overturn colonialism, and create the first free and independent Black nation in the Americas? These and other […]
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The U.S. Constitution of 1787 made no provisions for political parties. Only amidst the rivalries of the Washington administration, pitting Thomas Jefferson’s faction against Alexander Hamilton’s, did opposition politics coalesce. Even then, however, Jeffersonians remained reticent to mobilize the broader populace in support – that required the impact of the French Revolution. In early 1793, […]
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Why do the humanities matter? As Dean of a school of Arts and Sciences at a research university, I care deeply about the disciplines that fall under the rubric of the Arts and Sciences, which also include the natural and social sciences. But I am also a scholar of the humanities, whose focus has been […]
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“A lot of guys say, ‘I almost feel like I’m coming home”, said Bill E., a former Marine from his home in Da Nang. Bill had deployed to Vietnam in 1969, serving a year as a machine gunner along the demilitarized zone. He returned to the US and was discharged four days before the National […]
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This book originated in a conversation over coffee between the two editors. The result was a decision to ask Cambridge University Press whether they would be willing to publish a book whose theme was inspired by the career and life of Elisabeth van Houts. In assembling the group of scholars who have written these essays, […]
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When the Berlin Wall famously fell on November 9, 1989, crowds from East and West Germany gathered along the border to celebrate the end of the Cold War in Europe. The Berlin Wall was a simple and powerful shorthand for the oppressiveness of communism not only in East Germany but Soviet-controlled eastern Europe more broadly. […]
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