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A New Reading of World War I American Literature with Keith Gandal
One hundred years after U.S. involvement in World War I, it is time to revisit our literature that came out of that conflict--because we are only now, finally, able to understand it in its actual historical context. That is the purpose of my new book, War Isn...
Where's the Manual? - Tips to Running Successful Colleges and Universities
Where’s the Manual? Putting together the book, “Leading Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Higher Education Leaders,” has been a pleasure, though not a simple undertaking: the issues facing higher education today are profound and plentiful. Some days the...
Not an Environmental Problem but a Political One - Cleaning Up the Chesapeake Bay with Tom Pelton
The Chesapeake Bay as a Reflection of American Political Life By Tom Pelton As a journalist covering local government across different regions of the U.S. – in Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, and Massachusetts – I witnessed a pattern that was disturbing to me...
PCHP Gets New Editorial Team
A new editorial team has been chosen to lead the groundbreaking journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action (PCHP). Alvin H. Strelnick, Assistant Dean for Community Engagement at New York's Albert Einstein College of...
How Physicians, Engineers, and Airpower Enthusiasts Redefined Flight with Timothy Schultz
The Problem with Pilots: How Physicians, Engineers, and Airpower Enthusiasts Redefined Flight By Timothy P. Schultz As a pilot I was surprised to learn that pilots are the biggest problem in aviation. As a historian I wanted to learn why. The result was this...
Program Resumed
Almost two decades ago, Pennsylvania State University professor Brian Lennon published an article in the journal Configurations. As he looked for a home for a recent article on the history of JavaScript, he found that his old article marked the only use of the...
Malaria and War in the Age of Jackson with C.S. Monaco
Among the many unexpected findings that I uncovered while researching my book on the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), the most startling was the major role of malaria. Previous historians of this often-marginalized war have focused on traditional wartime...
The Agency of African States in Global Health Efforts with Amy Patterson
One of my most vivid memories from my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Senegal occurred soon after I moved to my assigned village. A group of NGO and government workers arrived to immunize children. Village elites enthusiastically told them to...
Examining Medical Futility
The journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine recently published a special issue on decisions involving medical futility. The issue features 21 responses to a paper written by Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. Jecker and Albert R. Jonsen. Editor Martha...
The Art of Writing Carefully with Sara Taber
CHANCE PARTICULARS: A WRITER’S FIELD NOTEBOOK… Why did I write Chance Particulars, a guide to keeping a field notebook? Most of my books, I have written spurred by my own curiosity or lust, or from a need to sort something out--books about the creeds of lonely...
