Category: American History
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 required, and the cost is $20 per person for each lunch and talk. Books…
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 required, and the cost is $20 per person for each lunch and talk. Books…
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 gorgeous, the history fascinating, and you are cordially invited to attend any and all of these events; details…
Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Authors are blessed when their books are published on important anniversaries. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger hit the stands in the spring of 2014, coinciding with the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 1564. After the Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated in 1932, four decades…
Look for books from Johns Hopkins University Press at the Ivy Bookshop tent at this year's Baltimore Book Festival! The Festival takes place at Baltimore's Inner Harbor this weekend--with great music, food, and books, books, books (and more books). The Ivy tent on Rash Field features a JHUP table with a display of some of…
Look for books from Johns Hopkins University Press at the Ivy Bookshop tent at this year's Baltimore Book Festival! The Festival takes place at Baltimore's Inner Harbor this weekend--with great music, food, and books, books, books (and more books). The Ivy tent on Rash Field features a JHUP table with a display of some of…
Guest post by Len Travers If Robert Wilson had done what he did today instead of in 1756, they would have given him a medal. That year, September 19 was a Sunday. On that sweltering late-summer afternoon Wilson and nearly fifty other New England soldiers were scouting the rocky, wooded shore of Lake George in…
Guest post by Robert C. Post The Smithsonian Institution is currently wrapped in controversy involving an exhibit at its National Museum of African Art, Conversations: African and African Amercian Artworks in Dialogue. Nobody doubts the exhibit’s noble purpose, displaying art with “the power to inspire.” But one-third of the works are from the collection of…
Guest post by Robert C. Post The Smithsonian Institution is currently wrapped in controversy involving an exhibit at its National Museum of African Art, Conversations: African and African Amercian Artworks in Dialogue. Nobody doubts the exhibit’s noble purpose, displaying art with “the power to inspire.” But one-third of the works are from the collection of…
Guest post by John N. Duvall and Robert P. Marzec What’s happening for the 14th anniversary of 9/11? For one thing, there are a lot of Harley rides. The sixth item in a Google search for “14th anniversary of 9/11” informs you about the 2015 9/11 Memorial Ride Harley Ride starting in Knoxville, Tennessee, in order to “remember those…