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News and Notes Take a peak inside our latest Political Science Catalog, covering International Relations, Democracy Studies, Security Studies, and American Politics. Charles Rzepka, author of Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard, wrote a moving eulogy...

Guest post by Michael Wolfe JHU Press author Michael Wolfe joins us at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday, September 29, at 1:00 p.m. to sign copies of Cut These Words into My Stone, his engaging collection of Greek epitaphs. See our full schedule of...

Guest post by Janine Barchas Today marks the start of the annual gathering of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), hosted this year in Minneapolis. This particular meeting celebrates the bicentennial of Pride and Prejudice (first published in 1813...

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. The past spring, JHU Press published Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay. We sat down...

By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editing I want to raise the proverbial red flag about what is happening to the color of the same name in recent years. First, the media stole the color red from the Left and gave it to the Republican Party, and now, the plain...

Guest post by Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H. Alzheimer’s Action Day—September 21, 2013—is a good time to reflect on how the perception of Alzheimer disease has changed over my 35 year career. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, most health professions and the...

Guest post by Laura Wayman To bring attention to this widespread and incurable disease, the Alzheimer’s Association has chosen September 21st as Alzheimer's Action Day. It asks everyone to wear purple to show their support for the search to find a cure...

Guest post by Rita Felski Is interpretation a historically limited practice that is now in decline? Or, at a time when the humanities are under attack, should we defend interpretation as lying at the very heart of what we do? These are the questions to be...

When you see medicine portrayed in the movies or on television, you pretty much know that the solution to any medical mystery will come in an hour or even less. The guy in the lab will have an amazing breakthrough, or some stray conversation will spark a...

Guest post by Ronald S. Coddington The Shaw Memorial, circa 1897; Collection of the Library of Congress. One day during the summer of 1904, Alex Johnson beamed as he stood on the Boston Common before the Shaw Memorial. Four decades earlier, he and his comrades...