Month: February 2015
If you are heading to the International Studies Association meeting in New Orleans from February 18 to 21, be sure to browse JHU Press books and journals at booth #414. Press authors will be stopping by, and we'll offer a 30% discount throughout the meeting (and afterward using code HEZQ). We are also pleased to…
Guest post by Ronald S. Coddington The Library of Congress recently acquired a tintype of Silas Chandler and Sgt. Andrew Martin Chandler. To understand how master and slave came to pose for this photograph, The Washington Post spoke to Ron Coddington about the portrait, as this story appears in Coddington’s latest book, African American Faces…
Guest post by Janine Barchas If Lydia Bennet hung celebrity pinups above her bed, whom might she have singled out among the rich and famous from the Georgian era? The following speculations are rooted in historical truth. Celebrity culture was in full swing when Jane Austen was born in 1775. Although hers was the age…
Guest post by Janine Barchas If Lydia Bennet hung celebrity pinups above her bed, whom might she have singled out among the rich and famous from the Georgian era? The following speculations are rooted in historical truth. Celebrity culture was in full swing when Jane Austen was born in 1775. Although hers was the age…
Interveiw by Hilary Jacqmin, Assistant Manuscript Editor We continue our conversation with Tracy Daugherty, author of the new collection of short stories, Empire of the Dead. This book is very much a post-9/11 creation. Some of the stories take place before 2001—The Magnitudes, most significantly, deals in a very personal way with the Oklahoma City…
Interview by Hilary Jacqmin, Assistant Manuscript Editor We are pleased to introduce A Writer’s Life, an occasional series on the JHUP Blog featuring interviews with the authors included in our Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series. First up is Tracy Daugherty, author of the recently published collection of short fiction, Empire of the Dead. Five out of…
Guest post by David F. Allmendinger Jr. In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people—men, women, and children—shocking the South. Nearly as many black people perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Our recent book by David F. Allmendinger Jr. presents…
Guest post by David F. Allmendinger Jr. In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people—men, women, and children—shocking the South. Nearly as many black people perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Our recent book by David F. Allmendinger Jr. presents…
The following post about MOOCs is an excerpt of Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology, by Bill Ferster The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. In almost every other area of our modern world, machines have significantly contributed to modern life, but they are largely missing from our schools. A nineteenth-century…
Guest post by Jennifer Chan How do you write about a topic on which over 100,000 journal articles, books, conference papers, scientific reports, government plans, and United Nations documents have already been published? The question nagged at me for months. The subject of AIDS seemingly swelled by the day. What angle should I take? Which…