Month: November 2013

Our 2013 History of Science Society virtual exhibit is open

Couldn't make it to Boston for the 2013 History of Science Society annual meeting? At the meeting but simply too busy to give our books and journals a proper look? Prefer to plan your purchases from the comfort of your hotel room before hitting the book exhibit? We have you covered for just about every instance…

On Collecting

Guest post by Amy Boesky As a professor of literature, I have long been interested in habits of “collecting.” What does it mean to gather together disparate works, either in a poetry miscellany (the early modern version of an anthology) or in a museum? What can be learned through such organization and arrangement? The process…

Clara Barton and Mr. Jones: From Gettysburg to I Street

guest post by Marian Moser Jones Last week, a man identifying himself as George Jones from Chicago left a cryptic voicemail on my office phone: “I have some information for you about Clara Barton. Please call.” In the months since the publication of my book, The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New…

Clara Barton and Mr. Jones: From Gettysburg to I Street

guest post by Marian Moser Jones Last week, a man identifying himself as George Jones from Chicago left a cryptic voicemail on my office phone: “I have some information for you about Clara Barton. Please call.” In the months since the publication of my book, The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New…

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…

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…

Our Reach Is Far and Wide

Thirty-seven presses have united for the Association of American University Presses annual University Press Week blog tour, which concludes today. Individual presses blogged on a different theme each day, writing posts that profiled university press staff members, discussed the future of scholarly communication, spotlighted different subject areas, argued for the importance of regional publishing, and…

Our Reach Is Far and Wide

Thirty-seven presses have united for the Association of American University Presses annual University Press Week blog tour, which concludes today. Individual presses blogged on a different theme each day, writing posts that profiled university press staff members, discussed the future of scholarly communication, spotlighted different subject areas, argued for the importance of regional publishing, and…