Johns Hopkins University Press Blog

Along with holding the promise of warmer days and winter’s end, the year’s shortest month is just long enough to include an appealing array of book talks and events featuring JHU Press authors, editors, and staff. Thoughts of spring will warm hearts (if not quite fingers and toes) at the Hopkins Club on February 11th,…

Guest post by Jason Zimba Back in 2009, a Google search on the term “3.OA.7” wouldn’t have returned very much. Today, this same search yields dozens of pages of hits. What has changed? And what, exactly, is “3.OA.7” anyway? Here’s what has changed: after thirty years of working separately to define K–12 learning goals for…

PBS’ The American Experience will re-air The Amish on Tuesday, January 28th at 8 p.m. Next week, PBS will premiere The Amish: Shunned on February 4th at 9 p.m. The Amish draws on the expertise of numerous JHU Press authors, including Donald B. Kraybill, a leading authority on the Amish and editor of the Press’ highly regarded…

If you're on the hunt for literary bargains, take a sneak peak at our Online Sale! News and Notes/Praise and Reviews The Huffington Post names Benedetta Berti’s Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration  one of the best political science books of 2013. A recent Baltimore City Paper review  of Michael Olesker’s Front Stoops in…

If you're on the hunt for literary bargains, take a sneak peak at our Online Sale! News and Notes/Praise and Reviews The Huffington Post names Benedetta Berti’s Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration  one of the best political science books of 2013. A recent Baltimore City Paper review  of Michael Olesker’s Front Stoops in…