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Each year the Association of American University Presses recognizes the best in cover design in their Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. We are proud to have three Johns Hopkins Press books featured in the 2017 list! You can view the complete list of showcased...

Years ago I was the dietetics department manager and proposed that we cease offering weight loss clinics. The dietitians were enraged and others viewed this as anarchic or frivolous but I was deadly serious. I haven’t recommended weight loss to a patient for...

The present massive political corruption in post-Soviet geopolitical space is rooted in cultural consumption of the Brezhnev era (1964-1982). During this period of late socialism in the USSR, millions of Soviet young people, loyal members of Komsomol, fell in...

Octavius McFarland was one of the millions of nameless, faceless slaves who toiled in Southern fields during antebellum times. His ceaseless labors made life comfortable for his white masters and fueled the booming Southern agrarian economy. His legal status...

Winter-weary reporters scurry on Groundhog Day, February 2, to answer the pressing question of whether spring will arrive early. Most cameras focus on a prognosticating groundhog emerging from its burrow in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, but they can also point...

A series of conversations at Johns Hopkins in the autumn of 1995 spawned the online journal Theory & Event, which was founded in 1997. Now one of the most widely disseminated and read journals in the field of contemporary theory, Theory & Event launched the...

by Seth A. Johnston At his first press conference following the election, the president reiterated statements made on the campaign trail that NATO – the Western alliance defending Europe and North America for decades – was “obsolete.” The year was 1966, and...

Happy New Year, readers! Here's what our authors have been up to this month: Before the Oath (PB: 9781421416595; $39.95) author Martha Kumar was a guest on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Brian Lamb’s C-SPAN interview with A Time of Scandal (HC: 9781421421308; $34...

I wanted to highlight the century-long struggle of African Americans to obtain the right to vote. The civil rights movement, sometimes referred to as the black freedom struggle, is one of the most compelling episodes of the American experience. After slavery...

The sociologist-senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously exclaimed that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” As the recent US presidential election has demonstrated, however, much of the voting public would seem to disagree. They...