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Earlier this year, the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (JCHY) published a special issue on children and childhood in Ireland. The articles originated at a conference entitled “Twenty Years A-Growing: An International Conference on the History of...

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine introduced a new section on Pedagogy designed to share approaches to and experiences of teaching the history of medicine in diverse classrooms. The section will appear twice a year and is complemented...

A conference at Yale University on marginality and canonicity inspired Marco Formisano and Serafina Cuomo to take a look at the work of ancient architect Vitruvius. That interest led to a recent special issue of the journal Arethusa on Vitruvius and his...

Mary Lincoln has been a mystery for more than 150 years. Irritable as the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, erratic as First Lady, and frankly psychotic as a widow, she died at the young age of 63 after years of unusual physical symptoms and progressively...

Thirty-five years ago, Deborah Dash Moore published "At Home in America," her groundbreaking look at how the children of immigrants blended elements of Jewish and American culture into a vibrant urban society. The most recent issue of the journal American...

In a recent issue of the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, a pair of researchers at the University of Alabama Birmingham shared their study of "Physician Religion and End-of-Life Pediatric Care." The project took a look at how the religion and...

Between 2011 and 2015, various celebrations and commemorations took place to mark the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. These events led to many conferences and academic discussions to take advantage of the heightened interest in the topic. Earlier...

Emily Dickinson Journal publishes its 25th volume in 2016 under the guidance of a new editor. James R. Guthrie, Professor of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University, now helms the journal. He joined us for a Q&A about his new role and the...

The recent issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies, featured the work of four emergent and established Filipino American scholars. Guest editor Martin Manalansan wrote the introduction to the cluster of papers, which we have re-printed here. Guest post...

Late last year, the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth published a special issue which took a look at the thorny subject of child death. Kathleen Jones organized a discussion of young people and death at the 2013 conference for the Society for the...