Books & Articles from Harvard Faculty
By Faculty Member (Click on the title to see more info):
Johnson, Walter - Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Walter Johnson. Harvard University Press. 2001. Publisher's Link About the book: Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave...
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Johnson, Walter - To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice (Article)
Walter Johnson. Boston Review, A Political and Literary Forum. 2016. Link to Article Walter Johnson Winthrop Professor of History, Professor of African and African American Studies I have written a history of the Mississippi Valley between the Louisiana...
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Kafadar, Cemal - Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State
Cemal Kafadar. University of California Press. November, 1996. Publisher's Link This highly original look at the rise of the Ottoman empire—the longest-lived political entity in human history—shows the transformation of a tiny frontier enterprise into a...
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Kamansky, Jane - A Revolution in Color
Jane Kamensky. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. October, 2016 Publisher's Link This bold new history recovers an unknown American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley. Boston in the 1740s: a bustling port at the edge...
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Kirby, William C - Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth
F. Warren McFarlan (Author), William C. Kirby (Author), Regina Abrami (Author). Harvard Business Review. February 18, 2014. Publisher's Link In this thought-provoking book, noted China experts from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School assert...
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Kloppenberg, James T. - Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
James T. Kloppenberg. Princeton University Press. January 1, 2010 Publisher's Link Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas...
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Kloppenberg, James T. - The Worlds of American Intellectual History
Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O'Brien, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. Oxford University Press. December 13, 2016 Publisher's Link The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history. Their core theme is...
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Kloppenberg, James T. - Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
James T. Kloppenberg. Oxford University Press, June 3, 2016 Publisher's Link In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The...
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Lepore, Jill - Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore. New York: Knopf. 2013. Link A Finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history...
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Lepore, Jill - The Cobweb Can the Internet be archived? (Article)
The Cobweb Can the Internet be archived? By Jill Lepore Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also...
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Lepore, Jill - The Prodigal Daughter Writing, history, mourning.
The Prodigal Daughter Writing, history, mourning. By Jill Lepore Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She...
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Lepore, Jill - The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill Lepore. New York: Knopf. October, 2014. Link A New York Times Bestseller "Ms. Lepore’s lively, surprising and occasionally salacious history is far more than the story of a comic strip. The author, a professor of history at Harvard, places Wonder...
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Lewis, Mary Dewhurst - The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940
Mary Dewhurst Lewis. Stanford University Press, 2007 Publisher's Link After the devastation of the First World War, France welcomed immigrants on an unprecedented scale. To manage these new residents, the French government devised Europe's first guest...
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Lewis, Mary Dewhurst - Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938
Mary Dewhurst Lewis. University of California Press, 2013 Publisher's Link After invading Tunisia in 1881, the French installed a protectorate in which they shared power with the Tunisian ruling dynasty and, due to the dynasty’s treaties with other...
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Lewis, Mary Dewhurst - Legacies of French Slave-Ownership, or the Long Decolonization of Saint-Domingue (article)
Mary Dewhurst Lewis. History Workshop Journal, Volume 83, Issue 1, 1 April 2017, Pages 151–175, Published: April 27, 2017. Link to Article Abstract After insurgent slaves in Saint-Domingue proclaimed the colony’s independence from France in 1804, France...
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