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By Becky Clark For University Press Week, JHUP’s director of marketing looks back on one of our most surprising publishing successes. Leon Schlossberg Once upon a time, years before cell phones, the Internet, and Project MUSE, the bestselling item from the...

If you are in Denver for the ASHE annual meeting, be sure to stop by to meet our staff, browse our latest publications, and take advantage of special meeting discounts. Throughout the meeting and after, JHUP books will be available at a 30% discount when your...

JHU Press art director, Martha Sewall, shared the wonderful news that an armful of JHUP books won awards at the recent New York Book Show. She reports that the annual event, sponsored by the Book Industry Guild of New York, is “a big show that includes entries...

The Fall 2015 issue of The Review of Higher Education featured research from Julie J. Park and Ann H. Becks looking at who benefits from preparation for the SAT. Their research focuses on how high school resources are linked to participation in a variety of...

Next week, JHU Press will host two special programs in our lunch and lecture series at the Johns Hopkins Club on the university’s Homewood campus. Descriptions are below, along with links to more information about the books and authors. Reservations are...

Guest post by Irene S. Wu The visit of Pope Francis to the United States reminded us what is good about the Church: the pull of an ancient creed, the call to a purpose bigger than ourselves, and the comfort of belonging to a caring community. There are many...

If you are in Houston for the ASBH Annual Meeting, be sure to stop by Booth #408 to meet our staff, browse our latest publications, and and take advantage of special meeting discounts. Throughout the meeting and after, JHUP books will be available at a 30%...

Next month, JHU Press publishes The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America, and authors Mark Reinberger and Elizabeth McLean will be celebrating with talks and book signings in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The book is...

Guest post by Leslie Day On the next to last day of September 2015, I was walking in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights from the Heather Garden. Just before I got to Sir William’s Dog Run, my eye caught a movement high up in the northern red oak tree...

Alfred Wegener is the greatest scientist you've never heard of. The author of the theory of continental drift—one of the key scientific concepts of the past century and the direct ancestor of the modern theory of plate tectonics—Wegener also made major...