Category: Baltimore
By john
November 4, 2013
American History, American Studies, Baltimore, Biography, Conferences, Cultural Studies, Education, For Everyone, Health and Medicine, History, Journals, Literature, Popular Culture, Press Events, Social media, Sports, Uncategorized, University Press Week
With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff. Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…
By john
November 4, 2013
American History, American Studies, Baltimore, Biography, Conferences, Cultural Studies, Education, For Everyone, Health and Medicine, History, Journals, Literature, Popular Culture, Press Events, Social media, Sports, Uncategorized, University Press Week
With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff. Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…
JHU Press author Michael Olesker delivered a terrific talk at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 21 about his new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age, which tells the stories of Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Barry Levinson, and other famous Charm City personalities as they came of age during…
JHU Press author Michael Olesker delivered a terrific talk at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 21 about his new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age, which tells the stories of Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Barry Levinson, and other famous Charm City personalities as they came of age during…
By john
October 4, 2013
American History, American Studies, Baltimore, Biography, Biology, Conferences, conservation, Cultural Studies, Education, For Everyone, History, Journals, Literature, Popular Culture, Press Events, Religion, Uncategorized, Uncategorized
October continues a lively fall season for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff. One notable three-day stretch includes the launch of Michael Olesker’s new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties, at Baltimore’s Pratt Library on October 21; a stellar gathering at JHU/SAIS in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the publication of ZBIG: The Strategy and Statecraft…
By Dean Smith, director, Project MUSE Dean Smith is part of our full roster of book signings and other events at this year’s Baltimore Book Festival. He and Ted Patterson will be signing copies of the second edition of Football in Baltimore: History and Memorabilia from Colts to Ravens in the Peabody Library at 1 pm…
To serious scholars, students, and aficionados of American poetry, Hart Crane needs no introduction. A controversial and troubled figure, Crane was born in 1899 to the inventor of Life Savers candy and killed himself in 1933 by jumping off a steamship into the Gulf of Mexico. His tragic and beautiful work profoundly influenced and inspired poets such as…