Guest post by David Jacobson David Jacobson, author of Of Virgins and Martyrs: Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict co-authored a CNN online commentary about the recent abduction of nearly 300 Nigerian girls. This excerpt is published with permission. Read the full commentary. The Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram has been active as a violent group since 2009 and…
Guest post by David Curtis Skaggs On May 11, 1814 the most successful US Army general so far in the War of 1812 tendered his resignation in a dispute with the secretary of the army. The man many expected to become commander of the misled, disorganized, and unsuccessful soldiers on the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River…
Guest post by David Curtis Skaggs On May 11, 1814 the most successful US Army general so far in the War of 1812 tendered his resignation in a dispute with the secretary of the army. The man many expected to become commander of the misled, disorganized, and unsuccessful soldiers on the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River…
Guest Post by Nicolas Rasmussen Historians widely share the attitude that it is not possible to write a proper historical account of fairly recent events. Fifty years is about the respectable time horizon before events become sufficiently past that they constitute legitimate subject matter for history. There are at least two good reasons for this attitude.…
By Jacqueline C. Wehmueller At Johns Hopkins Press we get a kick from communicating with authors and readers via Twitter and other social media platforms. We can now share good news immediately: “Nicolas Rasmussen’s Gene Jockeys reviewed in Nature!” “Book TV interviewing Margaret Humphrey about Marrow of Tragedy!” Social media has its limitations, of course, and it’s…