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“Oh, do you work in that cute little stone building?” may be the most common question asked of employees of the Johns Hopkins University Press. That small, campus edifice used to be the gatehouse for the William Wyman estate before the grounds became a...

The journal Eighteenth Century Studies will celebrate its 50th volume in 2016-17. Editor Steven Pincus shared some thoughts on the milestone in his introduction to the first issue of the volume, published this fall. We are sharing the introduction here. Read...

The following is an excerpt from chapter five of Gregory Dowd's latest book, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier. Check back with us every Thursday in the month of November for more Groundless excerpts highlighting word-of...

How much authority, in terms of the criminal justice system, can the state hand over to a private agency? This was an underlying, if not explicitly stated, question asked last month by the Justice Department when it announced that the Bureau of Prisons would...

I started working with older adults when I was only 15 years old. My best friend and I would go twice a week to volunteer at a local skilled nursing facility. I remember one day she said to me, “You’re really good at working with old people.” This was a funny...

“‘Freedom Time’ is a question, an insistence, a plea, a command, a description of a time yet to come, and a reminder that the definition of "freedom" is not given or limited to present enunciations. In the postscript of Freedom Time, I meditate on W. E. B. Du...

The following is an excerpt from chapter one of Gregory Dowd's latest book, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier. Check back with us every Thursday in the month of November for more Groundless excerpts highlighting word-of...

I never made it home for Thanksgiving that year, although I’d been looking forward to it all fall semester. I was an assistant professor, not a student, at that point and hadn’t lived in my parents’ house for many years. My husband Paul had grown up Catholic...

After three years of work, Anne Hanson and I are delighted that our book, Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care was released yesterday! So how did I find myself sitting in court rooms and riding alongside a police officer? Let me tell you a...

The new additions to the Johns Hopkins University Press' journals collection for 2017 will take readers from the American southwest to 19th century England to the recent history of China. The acquisition of Arizona Quarterly, Twentieth-Century China and...