Month: December 2013
guest post by Kay Harris Kriegsman, Ph.D. and Sara Palmer, Ph.D. “I look at her waking up of a morning. I sit right outside her bedroom door so she’ll see me there and feel safe knowing her granddad is there. We’ll build tents and take our flashlight inside. It’s given me an appreciation for what…
guest post by Kay Harris Kriegsman, Ph.D. and Sara Palmer, Ph.D. “I look at her waking up of a morning. I sit right outside her bedroom door so she’ll see me there and feel safe knowing her granddad is there. We’ll build tents and take our flashlight inside. It’s given me an appreciation for what…
guest post by Dean Smith The other night at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, owner Ed Berlin talked about the wonderful relationship that exists between the bookstore and JHU Press: “Our patrons love the books and the authors and we sell a lot of them.” The Ivy is a beautiful, clean, and well-lighted space for books.…
guest post by William Krist The United States is engaged in two huge trade negotiations that can have a far-reaching impact on our economy—and indeed the global economy. If successful, these negotiations may have a far greater impact than the North American Free Trade Agreement, which generated so much controversy in the early 1990s when…
guest post by John Bodnar Americans will soon be reminded again of the significance of December 7, 1941. For the past seventy-two years, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been recalled not only as the event that pushed America into World War II, but as a personal milestone for many who were alive on…
guest post by John Bodnar Americans will soon be reminded again of the significance of December 7, 1941. For the past seventy-two years, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been recalled not only as the event that pushed America into World War II, but as a personal milestone for many who were alive on…
Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. guest post by Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. Raccoons work hard to get into attics, sometimes destroying siding or roofing materials along the way. Once inside, raccoons may…
At the risk of tooting our own horn, some recent media highlights of JHU Press books follow. To read the articles, reviews and listen to podcasts, click on the respective hyperlinks. For TLS' "Books of the Year" column, Richie Robertson said of Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy by Theodore Ziolkowski, "Conspiracies, whether…
Drive through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or Holmes County, Ohio, and you can’t miss signs advertising quilts for sale. Quilts have become one of the objects most closely associated with the Old Order Amish, and these bedcovers frequently serve as souvenirs from tourists’ visits to these regions. Yet prior to around 1970, no one used the…
Drive through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or Holmes County, Ohio, and you can’t miss signs advertising quilts for sale. Quilts have become one of the objects most closely associated with the Old Order Amish, and these bedcovers frequently serve as souvenirs from tourists’ visits to these regions. Yet prior to around 1970, no one used the…