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By Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell To close this roundtable on Native American Revolutions, we’d like to flag a forthcoming collection that argues for an extension of our analysis to other Indigenous peoples facing other revolutions through our shared...

Earlier this year, the television show The Americans ended its five-season run on the FX network. The Cold War-era drama followed two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married American couple. Smita Rahman, the Frank L. Hall Professor of Political Science at...

The much-loved St. Bernard dog we know today was created by Victorian dog fanciers. It bears little semblance to the rescue dogs said to have been kept by Swiss monks on the St. Bernard Pass in the early nineteenth century. The leading champion of the new St...

Mammals inhabit nearly every continent and every sea. They have adapted to life underground, in the frozen Arctic, in the hottest deserts, the coldest oceans, and every habitat in between. Some are terrestrial, while others are arboreal, fossorial, or aquatic...

Earlier this year, the journal Social Research: An International Quarterly released a special issue on Estrangement. The eight essays take a look at the issue in both historical and current social and political contexts. Editor Arien Mack from The New School...

My latest book from the Johns Hopkins University Press was written as a literary form of crisis communications. Across parts of the United States and Europe we’ve now seen a reversal of some of the great public health gains achieved over the last two decades...

Earlier this year, Theatre Topics published a special issue on "Theatre and Protest." The issue featured eight essays as well as production notes from a half-dozen campus performances of either "Every 28 Hours" or "After Orlando," short-form dramas designed to...

There’s something about honey bees that delights us. They are known as “social” for a reason: they care for each other throughout their lives. They are born to serve one another and this devotion to the tens of thousands of bees within their community ensures...

It might surprise you to know that along with a diagnosis of depression, bipolar disorder, or other mental illness, a person often experiences a number of personal life losses that need to be addressed. Most people don’t even think about it or realize that...

Earlier this year, the JHU Press published the first issue of a new journal The Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. An initiative of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University, the journal will publish leading scholarship on all aspects of...