Bruce Ackerman

The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in 1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. With Republican militias preparing to march on Washington, the House of Representatives deadlocked between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the Electoral College crisis.

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Elizabeth Borgwardt

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime.

"When Roosevelt and Churchill met in Placentia Bay in 1941 and signed the Atlantic Charter, they created the momentum that led to the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the human rights revolution. This book is a surpassingly readable and reliable study of this founding moment."
‹Michael Ignatieff, author of The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

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Irene Quenzler Brown, Richard D. Brown

"The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler is at once a stark human drama superbly well told a work of exceptional scholarship. The setting is that of Ethan Frome, and in all the book casts something of the same haunting spell, except that here the story is true in every detail. My admiration for the skillful and consistently fair-minded way Irene and Richard Brown have rendered the story could not be greater."
‹David McCullough, author of John Adams

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Jonn T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, Robert Shenton

An alphabetical compendium of short but substantial essays about Harvard University‹its undergraduate college and nine professional schools‹this volume traverses the gamut of Harvardiana from Aab and Admissions to X Cage and Z Closet.

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Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence W. Kennedy

"Over the years Boston has played an important role in American history and consequently a topographical history of the city is of more than local interest...In an informed and witty manner, [Whitehill] traces the history of Boston by means of the physical and resultant social changes which have affected the city...[This history has been] delightfully...told in this attractive book."
‹James J. Heslin, New York Historical Society Quarterly

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Sterling F. Delano

In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Sterling Delano reveals a surprisingly grim side to paradise as the Brook Farmers faced relentless financial pressures, a declining faith in their leaders, and smoldering class antagonisms. This wonderfully evocative account vividly chronicles the spirit of the Transcendental age.

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Amy Kaplan

"[Kaplan] has a big important idea: the outside world mattered intensely and intimately to Americans from the nineteenth century onward. Kaplan is rightly fascinated with the contradictory impulses in American culture: we want the whole world to be like us, but being different and unique is part of who we are. We cannot have it both ways...Kaplan provides real insight into the ways this conflicted agenda continues to shape American identity."
‹Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs

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Susan Ware (editor)

This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists.

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John Demos

"Seventeenth-century America was governed by natural cycles, explains the aptly surnamed social historian John Demos in Circles and Lines...Over time, the circularity of early American life straightened out‹or did it flatten? Concluding this brief but satisfying meditation, erstwhile city-dweller Demos mentions his own recent rustication and urges us to remember the circles, cycles and seasons of the old America."
‹Bill Kaufmann, Wall Street Journal

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Laurent Dubois

"A stern and brilliant new book...The Haitian Revolution, in all its ugliness and brutality, was the response of the oppressed, indentured, and enslaved to their unjust condition. And it is this whirling and chaotic world that Dubois so vividly brings to life in Avengers of the New World and so accurately deconstructs."
‹Amy Wilentz, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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