Kudos to Dartmouth Junior!

Class of 2013 History major Emma Smith wins a Truman Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in public service fields and also provide assistance with career counseling, internship placement, graduate school admissions, and professional development. Emma's scholarship will enable her to pursue a Master of Laws in Human Rights, Conflict, and Justice at the University of London directly after graduating from Dartmouth. Congratulations Emma!

New Faculty Publications:

JAMES WRIGHT, Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them (PublicAffairs, a member of Perseus Books, 2012)

"At the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers"—those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill in Charlestown to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, and beyond, without expectation of recognition or recompense. Americans like to think that the service of its citizen volunteers is, and always has been, of momentous importance in our politics and society. But though this has made for good storytelling, the reality of America's relationship to its veterans is far more complex. In Those Who Have Borne the Battle, historian and marine veteran James Wright tells the story of the long, often troubled relationship between America and those who have defended her from the Revolutionary War to today shedding new light both on our history and on the issues our country and its armed forces face today."

BRUCE NELSON, Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race (Princeton University Press, 2012).

"This book is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race—from the nineteenth-century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and the United States, where Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been applied mainly to enslaved Africans and their descendants.

Most of the book focuses on how the Irish created their own identity—in the context of slavery and abolition, empire, and revolution. Since the Irish were a dispersed people, this process unfolded not only in Ireland, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, South Africa, and other countries. . . ."

DOUGLAS HAYNES, Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

"This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. Although the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns has been virtually ignored. Based on extensive archival research as well as numerous interviews with participants in the handloom and powerloom industries, this book explores the role of weavers, merchants, consumers, and labourers in the making of what the author calls 'small town capitalism.' By focusing on the politics of negotiation and resistance in local workshops, the book challenges conventional narratives of industrial change. . . ."

M. CECILIA GAPOSCHKIN, Blessed Louis: The Most Glorious of Kings (University of Notre Dame Press, Fall 2012).

"Saint Louis, King of France from 1226 to 1270, is among the most important figures of medieval history. This volume brings together five unknown texts dating from after Louis' canonization in 1297: two lives, the most popular liturgical office, and two early sermons. Four of these texts are edited here for the first time, and none has ever before been translated from the Latin"

ANNELISE ORLECK, The War on Poverty (University of Georgia Press, 2012).

"Makes an extremely significant intervention into several literatures—on social movements, on domestic policy, and on local government and power structures. It shares both a strong point of view and a clear commitment not to oversimplify or romanticize the grassroots activism it depicts, and this combination makes it convincing and, at times, gripping. The fact that the book treats civil rights activism among Mexican Americans, Indians, and Asian Americans is particularly attractive."—Linda Gordon, winner of the Bancroft Prize for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits"

COLIN CALLOWAY, LEDGER NARRATIVES: The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).

"During the latter part of the nineteenth century, Plains Indian men meticulously recorded their battle and hunting exploits, courting scenes, and other cultural events, and these images provide an important insight into the world of the Native warrior-artist. Commonly known as 'ledger drawings,' these artworks were created on lined and unlined paper that was originally bound into sketchbooks or account books. Mostly executed in pencil, they were created in a graphically bold style that shows little or no background scenery but plenty of detail. They serve as a moving testament to the artistic creativity of Plains Indian artists."

Lectures

WHY LINCOLN MATTERS: To Presidents, to History, and to Us

Wednesday • 2 May 2012 • 7 PM • Filene Auditorium • Moore Hall

Harold Holzer, one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era.

Our 16th President, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest orators ever to occupy the White House, actually did and said next to nothing during the entire 1860 presidential campaign—and the dangerous interregnum that followed until his March 1861 inauguration. Known as the "Great Secession Winter," the crisis of disunion elicited a remarkable response from the onetime debater and stump speaker: protracted, studied, and meaningful silence. On the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's inauguration, Holzer examines this little-known part of his legacy and examines the role it played in the sectional crisis and the Civil War.

Sponsored by the Nachman Fund in History and the Vermont Humanities Council.

A TALE OF TWO EMPIRES: British India and the Early American Republic

Tuesday • 24 April 2012 • 4:30 PM • L02 Carson Hall

Rosemarie Zagarri (Professor of History, George Mason University), is the author of several books including Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2007), The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776-1850 (1987), and A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (1995).  This lecture is based on her current book project, "Nabob on the Potomac: Thomas Law, British India, and the Early American Republic."

Sponsored by the History Department.

GROWTH IS BETTER THAN AUSTERITY: The Origins of Bretton Woods

Tuesday • 1 May 2012 • 3 PM • 28 Silsby

Eric Rauchway (Professor of History, University of California at Davis), is currently working on a history of the Bretton Woods agreements of 1944, and their antecedents and consequences. Not only does the conference of 1944 mark the beginning of a period of international consultation on monetary and financial matters that continues today, it is an important phase in Anglo-American and US-Soviet relations, as well as relations between the developed and developing world. In addition, the politics surrounding adoption of the Bretton Woods system within the US began a modern era of influencing public opinion for the purposes of shaping international arrangements.

Sponsored by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and the Departments of Economics, Government and History.