Category: History

Guest post by Ralph E. Eshelman “I have no hesitation in pronouncing that the whole of the Shores and Towns within this Vast Bay, not excepting the Capital itself will be wholly at your mercy, and subject if not to be permanently occupied, certainly to be successively insulted or destroyed at your Pleasure.” Rear Admiral…

Guest post by Michael Burlingame When news reached Washington that Lee was defeated and withdrawing from Gettysburg, Lincoln believed that General George G. Meade could deliver the coup de grâce to the Army of Northern Virginia before it escaped across the Potomac. According to presidential secretary John Hay, Lincoln “watched the progress of the Army…

Guest post by Michael Burlingame When news reached Washington that Lee was defeated and withdrawing from Gettysburg, Lincoln believed that General George G. Meade could deliver the coup de grâce to the Army of Northern Virginia before it escaped across the Potomac. According to presidential secretary John Hay, Lincoln “watched the progress of the Army…

Guest Post by Charles W. Mitchell The Battle of Gettysburg is arguably the most significant ever fought in America. Gettysburg, PA’s hills, rocks, ridges, fences, houses and barns show the topography much as it appeared 150 years ago, in July 1863—though it is less wooded, and all but a few of the thirty-eight orchards of…

Guest post by Ronald S. Coddington It is an undeniable fact that Alexander Gardner staged “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter,” one of the best-known photographs of Gettysburg. The brilliant pioneer photojournalist is responsible for misleading us into believing that a Confederate sharpshooter was mortally wounded, and, moreover, that the fatally injured rebel calmly placed his…

Summer's here but that doesn't mean our staff and authors are all at the beach. Here's what's hot with the JHU Press this July. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11-14 July 2013 JHU Press exhibit — Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, NM Conference details; JHU Press science & math catalog ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11 July 2013,…

Summer's here but that doesn't mean our staff and authors are all at the beach. Here's what's hot with the JHU Press this July. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11-14 July 2013 JHU Press exhibit — Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, NM Conference details; JHU Press science & math catalog ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11 July 2013,…

News and Notes Take a look at our new Fall 2013 catalog to see what's in store for the coming season. Valerie Weaver-Zercher, author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels, writes about ‘Why Amish Romance Novels Are Hot’ in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Bowden writes in the The Atlantic,…

The Amish—the companion book to the American Experience documentary on PBS—takes an in-depth look into Amish life in America. Publisher’s Weekly says of The Amish: “The authors successfully address the seeming exoticism of the Amish without sensationalism . . . The scholarship is enlivened with quotes and personal anecdotes, and the final section on the…

The Amish—the companion book to the American Experience documentary on PBS—takes an in-depth look into Amish life in America. Publisher’s Weekly says of The Amish: “The authors successfully address the seeming exoticism of the Amish without sensationalism . . . The scholarship is enlivened with quotes and personal anecdotes, and the final section on the…