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Valerie Weaver-Zercher, author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels, writes about ‘Why Amish Romance Novels Are Hot’ in The Wall Street Journal.
Mark Bowden writes in the The Atlantic, “In a monumental and meticulous two-volume study of the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2008), Michael Burlingame . . . presents Lincoln’s actions and speeches not as they have come to be remembered, through the fine lens of our gratitude and admiration, but as they were received in his day. (All of the examples in this essay are drawn from Burlingame’s book, which should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in Lincoln.)”.
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Our podcast series visited recently with James Marten, who takes over as editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth this year. Marten joined us to talk about his plans for the new role as well as the progress of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth. Subscribe to our iTunes feed so you don’t miss any episodes of the podcast.
The journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics has a new website at www.nibjournal.org. The site provides information about how to best use the four-year-old journal, as well as guidelines for authors and links to sample articles.
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