November 26, 2014
—Andrew Guthrie Ferguson On Monday, at 9:00pm, the nation anxiously awaited the decision of twelve ordinary citizens. National and international media prepared to report on the collective efforts of the… READ MORE
November 25, 2014
In Brooklyn’s Promised Land, historian Judith Wellman sheds light on the virtually lost history of Weeksville, an independent free black community in nineteenth-century Brooklyn. Founded after slavery ended in New York State in… READ MORE
November 19, 2014
—Stanley I. Thangaraj Popular culture is one important realm where Asian Americans, along with other communities of color, negotiate and manage the representations of their communities. In particular, visibility in… READ MORE
November 17, 2014
In honor of World Toilet Day coming up on November 19, one of our authors, Sara Fanning, and her husband discuss a possible solution to Haiti’s tragic cholera epidemic. —Sara… READ MORE
November 14, 2014
Happy University Press Week! We are thrilled to once again be featured the final run of the university press blog tour—this year, with a post from Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler,… READ MORE
November 13, 2014
—Ted Merwin When I was growing up on Long Island in the 1970s, school field trips meant being schlepped on a bus to the McGraw-Hill building on Sixth Avenue, to… READ MORE
November 11, 2014
—Mark Boulton [This post originally appeared on The Hill’s Congress Blog.] Listen to the words of any politician this Veterans Day, or head down to any local war memorial. Turn on a… READ MORE
November 6, 2014
—Michael F. Pettinger, Kathleen T. Talvacchia, and Mark Larrimore “Queer Christian lives are wildly, deliciously varied.” With those words, our co-editor Mark Larrimore captured the most compelling reason for editing… READ MORE