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Taking it to the Streets with Laura Perna
Like many others, I have dedicated my career to trying to improve equity and advance social change. I am especially interested in identifying ways to ensure that all people – regardless of demographic background or place of residence – have the opportunity to...
Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada
Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada: Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1764-1826 While working with the first-person narratives that inform this book, I found historical moment after moment open up in new and often compelling ways. Knowing for...
JHUP Adds Two Journals to Collection
The Johns Hopkins University Press has added two new journals to its exceptional collection of humanities and social sciences publications. The Journal of Chinese Religions is the official publication of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions...
All Our Names
Nathan Grant has served as editor of African American Review since 2008. An Associate Professor at St. Louis University, he has agreed to republish his introduction to the issue celebrating the journal's landmark 50th anniversary here on our blog. Issue 50.4...
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...
