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Katherine Binhammer answers questions about her new book Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel. Your book on downward mobility in eighteenth-century literature was published right before a pandemic-induced recession. How might...

It is often said that Americans know little about world geography, but it seems safe to say that, if asked to draw an outline map of the United States (at least the lower forty-eight), most Americans would do a decent job. After all, the shape of the United...

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures explores alternative modes of contact for medieval scholars, librarians, and archivists specializing in medieval studies and medieval texts, made possible by the emergence of digital resources and by engagement...

Dr. Valerie Trouet, author of the new book Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings, was recently interviewed by Tiffany Gasbarrini, the book’s editor and the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Life Sciences at JHU Press. Their playful, wide-ranging...

I wrote The Opioid Fix: America’s Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don’t Want You to Have for two reasons. First, I wanted to bring to light the stories of people whose lives have changed through medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction...

Every year on May 4th, fans of the Star Wars franchise observe “Star Wars Day”. The date, originally chosen as a play on words (“May the fourth be with you”) has become a worldwide celebration of the universe created by George Lucas and carried on through...

2019 was a big year for Herman Mellville. Not only was it the 200th anniversary of Melville's birth, but also the 100th anniversary of the "Melville Revival" - the awakened attention to his work that began in 1919. To mark the double anniversary, the Herman...

You wrote All the Horrors of War partly about your mother, and her narrative accounts are incredibly detailed – what did the interview process for these portions look like? I have been asking my mother questions since I was a little girl, didn’t want to go to...

I drove a taxi in New York City from 1971-1975, graduating from hacking as a part-time earning a 42% commission on each fare to becoming a “steady man” who earned 49% of each day’s receipts plus tips. My first hack was a broken-down Dodge Polara with a smoky...

I began The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870 while finishing my previous book, Tribe, Race, History, on Native Americans in southern New England from the Revolution through Reconstruction. At that time, 2005, the widening gulf between...