Category: Current Affairs
Guest post by Daryl G. Smith If the last few months have taught us anything, it is how much more we have to do as a society in addressing the unfinished business of race. The events in Charleston, Ferguson, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, as well as the incidents at Oklahoma State, to name only a…
Guest post by Daryl G. Smith If the last few months have taught us anything, it is how much more we have to do as a society in addressing the unfinished business of race. The events in Charleston, Ferguson, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, as well as the incidents at Oklahoma State, to name only a…
We’re excited about the books we’ll be publishing this fall—and pleased to share this series of “Fall Books Preview” blog posts! Be sure to check out the online edition of JHUP’s entire Fall 2015 catalog, and remember that promo code “HDPD” gets you a 30% discount on pre-pub orders. Today we continue with a selection…
We’re excited about the books we’ll be publishing this fall—and pleased to share this series of “Fall Books Preview” blog posts! Be sure to check out the online edition of JHUP’s entire Fall 2015 catalog, and remember that promo code “HDPD” gets you a 30% discount on pre-pub orders. Today we continue with a selection…
Look for our new books in Latin American Studies at the Scholars’ Choice booth at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from May 27 to 30. Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest by Paul Almeida “By comparing local-level protests in countries of Central America during the time…
Look for our new books in Latin American Studies at the Scholars’ Choice booth at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from May 27 to 30. Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest by Paul Almeida “By comparing local-level protests in countries of Central America during the time…
Guest post by Susan Nance It was big news recently when Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus finally bowed to public pressure and their accountants to announce that they will phase out live elephants in their traveling shows by 2018. The circus company is the last one to hold a large herd of elephants.…
Guest post by Kristen A. Renn The recent and—to many—unexpected announcement of the fast-track closing of Sweet Briar College has sent shockwaves through the private liberal arts college sector. Nearly all of the remaining women’s colleges in the U.S. are also in this sector and thus face a dual threat to continued existence: the decreasing…
Guest post by Laura Wayman, The Dementia Whisperer In the film Still Alice, Alice Howland is a linguistics professor who endures, at the unusually young age of 50, dementia symptoms caused by a form of young onset Alzheimer’s that runs in her family. Although this type of Alzheimer’s is rare, the dementia symptoms are the same…
Guest post by Laura Wayman, The Dementia Whisperer In the film Still Alice, Alice Howland is a linguistics professor who endures, at the unusually young age of 50, dementia symptoms caused by a form of young onset Alzheimer’s that runs in her family. Although this type of Alzheimer’s is rare, the dementia symptoms are the same…