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Finding satisfaction in your work

By Mary Berman, manuscript editing intern When I’m not reading, writing, begging my friends to hang out with me, or talking on the phone with my mom, I’m interning in the Manuscript Editing department at JHU Press. For nine hours a week, I proofread, check revised manuscripts against the marked-up masters, make sure indexes are…

The identity of a servant to a Union officer comes to light

Guest post by Ronald S. Coddington There is perhaps no bigger thrill than being contacted by a reader with new information about one of the men profiled in my series of Faces books. I recently experienced the excitement after the unnamed individual in the frontispiece photograph of my latest volume, African American Faces of the…

A defining moment

By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor Okay, I admit it. I have been known to read dictionaries for fun. When I was growing up, my siblings and I would challenge ourselves with foreign language Scrabble. We also played a sort of a “stump the band” where we would try to find words in the dictionary that…