Category: For Everyone

The Health Crisis of the Civil War

guest post by Margaret Humphreys In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir explore the public health implications of natural disasters. At first the fact that wars and disasters kill people may provoke an eye-roll response—“Oh, gee, I didn’t know that”—but a closer reading evokes a broader…

The Health Crisis of the Civil War

guest post by Margaret Humphreys In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir explore the public health implications of natural disasters. At first the fact that wars and disasters kill people may provoke an eye-roll response—“Oh, gee, I didn’t know that”—but a closer reading evokes a broader…

November book talks, exhibits, and University Press Week

With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff.  Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…

November book talks, exhibits, and University Press Week

With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff.  Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…

Michael Olesker on Charm City in the fifties

JHU Press author Michael Olesker delivered a terrific talk at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 21 about his new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age, which tells the stories of Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Barry Levinson, and other famous Charm City personalities as they came of age during…

Michael Olesker on Charm City in the fifties

JHU Press author Michael Olesker delivered a terrific talk at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 21 about his new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age, which tells the stories of Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Barry Levinson, and other famous Charm City personalities as they came of age during…