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Today marks the 147th anniversary of the 1870 Education Act, which established compulsory schooling in England and Wales for children between the ages of 5 and 12. A recent special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review took a look at the relationship between...

What makes health care special? That’s the question driving an essay by Chad Horne in a recent issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Horne, currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA...

The 2017 volume of the journal Poe Studies marked the 50th publication of the journal dedicated to the author near and dear to our hometown of Baltimore. The annual issue included a cluster of papers on "Poe and Nineteenth-Century Medicine." Washington State...

A team at Oregon State University took over the editorial duties for the journal Feminist Formations in 2016. Editor Patti Duncan took some time to talk with us about the journal and its innovative work in women's, gender and sexuality studies when she visited...

In her final issue as editor of Theatre Journal, Joanne Tompkins put together a special issue on theatre, performance and visual images. The essays in the issue engage in images in theatre and the image of theater, she writes in her introduction to the special...

In March 2017, eight scholars from a variety of disciplines gathered at Texas A&M University for a two-day conference called "1917: A Global Turning Point in History and Memory." The discussions and presentations were later developed into a special issue of...

Two Johns Hopkins University Press Journals received awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals at the recent Modern Language Association annual meeting in New York. ASAP/Journal took home an award for the second straight year by winning the Best...

Earlier this year, Theatre Journal released a special issue on "Theatre and the Museum/Cultures of Display," sparked by journal co-editor Jennifer Parker-Starbuck's personal fascination with the history of collection and display. "This special issue, then, was...

A recent special issue of L'Esprit Createur honored Régine Reynolds-Cornell, professor emerita of French at Agnes Scott College, whose research focused on women writers in the Renaissance, especially Marguerite de Navarre. Judy Kem, associate professor in the...

To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on Oct. 31, 2017, the journal Lutheran Quarterly has created a virtual timeline to highlight seminal works from the journal’s pages on significant events in the history of the Lutheran Church...