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By Tashina Gunning, Project MUSE Early on Friday, June 27, more than 2,000,000 people descended upon the streets of Chicago for one of the grandest celebrations in the city’s history. Most of them wore red, some dressed in hockey sweaters, others opted for bikini tops on the hot summer day, but all beamed with hometown…

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,…

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  Guest post by C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. I cannot say when I saw my first frog, but I must have been very young. I grew up in…

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  Guest post by C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. I cannot say when I saw my first frog, but I must have been very young. I grew up in…

Guest post by Michael A. Olivas Monday was hog heaven for me, as I teach both higher education law and immigration law courses, and had important litigation and legislation grist for both areas of study. Of course, immigration reform is moving its drunkard’s reel through Congress, and it is a full time business to keep…