Explores Natalie Zemon Davis's concept of history as a dialogue, not only with the past, but with other historians.

A survey of slaves on film analyzes five films Spartacus, Burn!, The Last Supper, Amistad, and Beloved to construct a social and cinematic history of bondage.

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of ...

The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the ...

For the period when the Edict of Nantes was in force, Benedict (history, Brown U., Providence, Rhode Island) looks as some historical aspects of the roughly one million ...