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From the Preface to the forthcoming Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers: Amish. Hate. Crimes. These three words suddenly linked arms in the fall of 2011 when a string of beard-cutting attacks startled the Amish community in eastern Ohio. The fact that the perpetrators were Amish generated an…
From the Preface to the forthcoming Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers: Amish. Hate. Crimes. These three words suddenly linked arms in the fall of 2011 when a string of beard-cutting attacks startled the Amish community in eastern Ohio. The fact that the perpetrators were Amish generated an…
Guest post by Laura Ewen I came to Johns Hopkins in 2011 as a freshman English major with no doubts about what I wanted to study but no clue how to transfer it into a career path. All I seemed to hear was how difficult getting a job would be with an English degree, especially from…
Guest post by Laura Ewen I came to Johns Hopkins in 2011 as a freshman English major with no doubts about what I wanted to study but no clue how to transfer it into a career path. All I seemed to hear was how difficult getting a job would be with an English degree, especially from…
By Greg Britton Scholarly publishing is a tough business. In addition to all the forces arrayed against it—shrinking bookstore and library markets, new and untested formats, competition for attention online, and books that by their nature have limited audiences—publisher also face stiff competition. We compete with each other for the best books and best authors.…
By Greg Britton Scholarly publishing is a tough business. In addition to all the forces arrayed against it—shrinking bookstore and library markets, new and untested formats, competition for attention online, and books that by their nature have limited audiences—publisher also face stiff competition. We compete with each other for the best books and best authors.…
Guest post by Bob Luke Long before co-authoring Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops with John David Smith, the Civil War fascinated me. My grandfather on my father’s side, born just ten years after Appomattox, treasured his copy of Francis Trevelyan Miller’s The Photographic History of…
Guest post by Bob Luke Long before co-authoring Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops with John David Smith, the Civil War fascinated me. My grandfather on my father’s side, born just ten years after Appomattox, treasured his copy of Francis Trevelyan Miller’s The Photographic History of…
By Brian Shea, Journals public relations and advertising coordinator Thirty years ago, the journal diacritics published a special issue on nuclear criticism that focused on new ways of talking about the threat of nuclear war, which pervaded all aspects of society in the mid-1980s. Now, guest editor Karen Pinkus has put together a similarly-themed issue on one of…
By Brian Shea, Journals public relations and advertising coordinator Thirty years ago, the journal diacritics published a special issue on nuclear criticism that focused on new ways of talking about the threat of nuclear war, which pervaded all aspects of society in the mid-1980s. Now, guest editor Karen Pinkus has put together a similarly-themed issue on one of…