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By Bob Post My friend at the MIT Museum, Deborah Douglas, describes Who Owns America’s Past? as “part history, part memoir, part polemic.” Such a trifurcation was not really on my mind as I wrote, but now I know Debbie is spot on. The polemic concerns, first...

Perhaps it’s the election of 2016. More and more of us, it seems, are obsessively checking the news on cable channels and websites several times a day. Or we haunt Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates. We typically think of this obsession with the news...

The following is an excerpt from chapter nine of Gregory Dowd's latest book, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier. Late in the Revolutionary War, in Passy, France, [Benjamin] Franklin lifted his pen in a most extraordinary...

The following is an excerpt from chapter eight of Gregory Dowd's latest book, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier. Check back with us every Thursday in the month of November for more Groundless excerpts highlighting word-of...

The following is an excerpt from chapter five of Gregory Dowd's latest book, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier. Check back with us every Thursday in the month of November for more Groundless excerpts highlighting word-of...

The following is an excerpt from chapter one of Gregory Dowd's latest book, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier. Check back with us every Thursday in the month of November for more Groundless excerpts highlighting word-of...

Our authors have been scary busy this month. Here are the highlights: Wendy Gamber’s The Notorious Mrs. Clem (HC 9781421420202; $34.95) was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. The book has also received publicity in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal...

On 6 October 2016 the British pound fell 6 per cent in the space of just a few minutes of electronic trading. Just as quickly, sterling regained most of its value, but the scare caused the new Chancellor of the Exchequer to warn that the road to Brexit might...

JHUP goes Behind the Book with Wendy Gamber, author of fascinating new book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I’m a nosy person. Several years ago I thought it might be fun to research...

The following is an excerpt from Melvin Yazawa’s new book, Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and save the Union, 1787—1789 in honor of Constitution Day on 17 September. Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who famously...