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The history of Walker’s Mammals of the World goes back to the 1930s, when Ernest P. Walker, assistant director of the National Zoological Park in Washington, began assembling data and imagery. First published in 1964, it became a Johns Hopkins University Press...

Why does the world’s strongest military willingly take orders from unarmed politicians who are unschooled in the logic of professional violence? In a world where “might makes right,” why doesn’t the American military insist on getting its own way in the...

Cold War Perspective on the North Korea Summit: Lessons from the Berlin Crisis Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson are the authors of The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E Thompson, America's Man in Cold War Moscow, recently published by Johns Hopkins University...

MENTAL HEALTH MATTERSMental health is something we should not take for granted. Depression, anxiety, mood disorders and other mental health issues impact the well being of millions of Americans everyday. Yet many of us don't know how to talk to each other...

I started writing this book, Northern Italy in the Roman World, with a question: what effects did the Roman Empire have on territories under its control? That question has been a mainstay of Roman studies for decades, and I was hoping to apply it to northern...

The late Michael Rogin, a political theorist who taught at the University of California, Berkley, spent his career finding creative approaches to critiquing the intersections of culture and power. His work "foregrounds the patterns of racialized nationalism...

As a political historian, my initial objective when writing Hydrocarbon Nation was simply to investigate the role that fossil fuels have played in influencing America’s political and economic advance. My sense was that although most environmentalists view...

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson's To-Do List: Declare independence (note the British are the most powerful economic and military force in the world). Win a war (see note 1). Convince the thirteen colonies to give up their autonomy and form a federation...

The first issue of the 2018 volume of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 seeks to answer the question, "can there be anything 'After Sovereignty.'" That title presents a special issue of nine papers examining the historical aspects of sovereign power...

In 2018, Karen Pinkus moved into the editor position at the journal diacritics. The journal is based at Cornell University where Pinkus is a Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature. We previously spoke with Pinkus on a podcast about a 2014 special...