Month: April 2015
Guest post by Joseph Luzzi On November 3, 1993, a throng of fifteen thousand poured into St. Mary of the Angels Basilica in Rome and the adjoining piazza to bid farewell to the recently deceased Federico Fellini, while millions more watched a live telecast of the ceremony. To many, it wasn’t just the funeral of…
By Greg Britton American education is a place of remarkable dynamism right now. The popular media is awash in stories that consider everything from the efficacy of how we test our children to how we fund our schools, or whether it is possible that those schools can even alleviate the effects of growing social inequality.…
By Greg Britton American education is a place of remarkable dynamism right now. The popular media is awash in stories that consider everything from the efficacy of how we test our children to how we fund our schools, or whether it is possible that those schools can even alleviate the effects of growing social inequality.…
Guest post by Michael C. C. Adams As I write, the temperatures in the lower midwest that I call home are below Antarctica’s. This is Lincoln country, where he lived and worked until leaving for Washington. And here he returned in death. Much has been written about the assassination, from maudlin verses to conspiracy theories.…
Guest Post by Jessica Choppin Roney Jessica Choppin Roney's Governed by a Spirit of Opposition, recipient of the The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Book Prize for 2014, will be among the new titles on display in JHUP's exhibit at the Organization of American Historian's annual meeting taking place in St. Louis from April 16 to 19. I’ve…
Guest Post by Jessica Choppin Roney Jessica Choppin Roney's Governed by a Spirit of Opposition, recipient of the The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Book Prize for 2014, will be among the new titles on display in JHUP's exhibit at the Organization of American Historian's annual meeting taking place in St. Louis from April 16 to 19. I’ve…
The JHU Press community was thrilled on April 7 when Poets & Writers, the service organization for creative writers, announced that X. J. Kennedy had received the ninth annual Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 prize is given each year to "an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition." The award is among the…
Stanley I. Kutler, the distinguished historian with a long and productive relationship with John Hopkins University Press, died earlier this week in Wisconsin at the age of 80. Kutler was the founding editor of Reviews in American History and the founder and series editor of The American Moment, one of JHUP’s most successful book series.…
Stanley I. Kutler, the distinguished historian with a long and productive relationship with John Hopkins University Press, died earlier this week in Wisconsin at the age of 80. Kutler was the founding editor of Reviews in American History and the founder and series editor of The American Moment, one of JHUP’s most successful book series.…
Guest post by Bryan MacKay With a cautious nod to what seems to be (let's hope) the arrival of Spring in Maryland, we offer the following April excerpt from Bryan MacKay's A Year across Maryland, his week-by-week guide to enjoying the natural world in JHUP's home state. Rockfish (Striped Bass) Fishing Season Opens Rockfish, that…