Our December calendar begins with some terrific author events and ends with preparations for the new year’s onslaught of academic meetings. As always, we appreciate your help in spreading the word about JHUP’s events and activities. And never forget, please, that books and journal subscriptions from the Press make most excellent gifts. Best wishes to you and yours for the holiday season from all of us at Johns Hopkins University Press!
3 December 2014, 1:00 p.m.
Book Talk & Signing
Stanley Mazaroff
Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson: Collector and Connoisseur
Pikesville Library Speaker Series
1301 Reisterstown Road
Pikesville, Maryland 21208
Admission: Free; information on the website.
4 December 2014, 12:00 p.m.
Author Interview: Donald Kraybill
Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes,
and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers
WYPR, 88.1 FM
Midday with Dan Rodricks
4 December 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Book Tal
k & Signing
Charles W. Mitchell
Travels through American History
in the Mid-Atlantic: A Guide for All Ages
and Bryan MacKay
A Year across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region
The Ivy Bookshop
6080 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
Admission: Free
6 December 2014, 2:00 p.m.
Book Talk & Signing
Michael C. C. Adams
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Rookwood Pavilion
2962 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208
Admission: Free; for information, call 513-396-8960 or visit Joseph-Beth Booksellers.
9 December 2014, 12:30 p.m.
Johns Hopkins Club Lunch & Lecture
Charles W. Mitchell
Travels through American History
in the Mid-Atlantic
Johns Hopkins Club, Homewood Campus
Baltimore, MD
Few regions of the United States boast as many historically significant sites as the mid-Atlantic. Charley Mitchell joins us to discuss his new book from JHU Press, an engaging travel guide that brings to life sixteen easily accessible historical destinations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., the Potomac Valley, and Virginia.
Admission: $20; Club members contact the Club to register; non-members contact Jack Holmes at 410-516-6928 to attend as guests of the Press.
18 December 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Book Talk & Signing
Dane Morrison
True Yankees: The South Seas & the Discovery
of American Identity
Portsmouth Athenaeum
9 Market Square
Portsmouth, NH
Drawing on private journals, letters, ships’ logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, True Yankees traces America’s earliest encounters on a global stage through the exhilarating experiences of five Yankee seafarers. The accounts of these adventurous travelers reveal how they and hundreds of other mariners and expatriates influenced the ways in which Americans defined themselves, thereby creating a genuinely brash national character—the “true Yankee.” Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale. 5:30 p.m. in the Reading Room.
Admission: Free and open to the public, seating is limited and reservations are recommended; for information or to register, call 603-431-2538 or visit the Athenaeum calendar.
