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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…
The Journal of Democracy will host a special event tonight at the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the publication’s 25th anniversary. The Center for International Media Assistance - housed at the National Endowment for Democracy, the sponsor of the journal - published an interview with Journal of Democracy co-editor Marc Plattner. He reflected on the milestone…
Guest post by Zachary Shore Shortly after the horrifying Paris attacks, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared war. France, he said, must defend its values of liberty and fraternity. Less than two weeks later the French government announced sweeping new measures, including hiring 2,600 counterterrorism officers, widening the use of telephone surveillance, and expanding data collection…
Guest post by Zachary Shore Shortly after the horrifying Paris attacks, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared war. France, he said, must defend its values of liberty and fraternity. Less than two weeks later the French government announced sweeping new measures, including hiring 2,600 counterterrorism officers, widening the use of telephone surveillance, and expanding data collection…
The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time since one of its first appearances in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. The style reflected the confidence of the age—streamlined, chrome-clad, glossy black. Along with simple elegance, sharp lines, and cosmopolitan aspirations,…