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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...

In a world in which an entire website is dedicated to the cataloging of official and unofficial days of observance, and each day of the Gregorian calendar is shared by several such pseudo-holidays, do we over-emphasize the promotional and the hashtag-able...

Our authors have been scary busy this month. Here are the highlights: Wendy Gamber’s The Notorious Mrs. Clem (HC 9781421420202; $34.95) was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. The book has also received publicity in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal...

An Irishwoman, who died more than two hundred years ago, can help us understand the self-destructive effect of Islamophobia now sweeping the western world and casting its dark shadow over the American presidential election. Mary Tighe (1772-1810) was the...