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Wendy Queen Appointed as the Inaugural Chief Transformation Officer at Johns Hopkins University Press
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By Paul A. Lombardo I began my book Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell, with an account of my introduction to the Buck case in 1980, when I saw a newspaper story about a lawsuit brought by someone who had been...
Defending Privilege – Q&A with author Nicole Mansfield Wright
Some reviewers have described Defending Privilege as an explainer of the historical roots of our current political warfare. How does your book illuminate current events?These days, government leaders, cable hosts, journalists, and protestors are battling to...
Law and People in Colonial America
How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first legal institutions, and who served in them? And why did the early Americans develop a passion for litigation that continues to this day? These questions and more are...
To Know Where Health Care is Going, You Have to Know Where It Has Been
November brings the opening of enrollment for 2017 health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as new questions about the sustainability of the health insurance marketplace created by ACA. The market in many areas of the country is...
