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Newspapers and other periodicals played an important role in the life of Victorian Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire. For the past 50 years, the journal Victorian Periodicals Review (VPR) has published research on the editorial and publishing history of...

There were a lot of famous novels published during the 1950s: Invisible Man, On the Road, The Recognitions, Lolita, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Things Fall Apart, Atlas Shrugged, all three volumes of The Lord of the Rings, The...

JHUP goes Behind the Book with Wendy Gamber, author of fascinating new book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I’m a nosy person. Several years ago I thought it might be fun to research...

Well maybe not mean, but cold? “She was a cold one.” So responded a librarian when I told him I was writing a book about Nancy Clem. The attorneys who prosecuted her, who included future U.S. president Benjamin Harrison, would have agreed. They portrayed Clem...

The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...

This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...

This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...