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What made you want to write Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800? I wanted to combat two assumptions: one, that sailors were not capable of doing mathematics, and two, that math textbooks are not interesting! Before becoming a historian, I...

The relationship between American children and television had has many twists and turns. The Spring issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth features an essay by Colin Ackerman, a Research Associate for the Collaborative for Academic, Social...

Over the past year, I have issued short descriptions of the topics covered in How University Boards Work: A Guide for Trustees, Officers, and Leaders in Higher Education. In this post, I attempt to summarize the challenges and methods of institutional change...

And some there be, which have no memorial; As though they had never been; And are become as though they had never been born . . . That passage from the book of Ecclesiasticus, which begins Hodges’ Scout, came out of the blue. More honestly, it came as an...

What did it mean to be an adolescent in the British eighteenth century? According to one influential argument, there simply was no such thing; the idea that youth represented a distinct life stage is, by this light, a modern invention only anachronistically...

The term "artificial intelligence" can conjur up any number of thoughts. Some may think about a home device providing instant access to weather and news. Others may find their minds going to technologies that aid in policing, employment and other important...

Over the past year, I have issued brief discussions of selected topics covered in How University Boards Work: A Guide for Trustees, Officers, and Leaders in Higher Education. In this post, I comment on recent news stories about alternatives to college. The...

Earlier this year, the Journal of Asian American Studies released a special issue guest edited by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is also the founding director for the Bulosan...

We are delighted to congratulate Joy Harjo, the newly named 23rd poet laureate of the United States, and the first Native American to serve in the position, which she will hold from this September until 2021. A member of the Mvskoke Creek Nation, Harjo has...

The idea for ​​the book Snakes of Central and Western Africa occurred to us 10 years ago, after we noted the lack of a monograph gathering available information on snakes from Sub-Saharan Africa. Our respective complementary experience convinced us to...