Category: Cultural Studies
Tropical Storm Andrea’s pouring rain here in Baltimore and throughout much of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast today, but we know the summer reading and movie-going season is just about upon us. Before you hit the theaters or crack into that stack of crime and noir novels, we suggest you take some time to consider the…
Tropical Storm Andrea’s pouring rain here in Baltimore and throughout much of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast today, but we know the summer reading and movie-going season is just about upon us. Before you hit the theaters or crack into that stack of crime and noir novels, we suggest you take some time to consider the…
Guest post by Valerie Weaver-Zercher Academic research of readers and writers and books can take one to far-flung places: musty archives in Turkey, literacy circles in São Paulo, collections of incunabula in Mainz. But research for my book Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels propelled me toward rather than away from…
Guest Post by Adam Mendelsohn In the century after the Civil War ended, those who were interested in the experience of Jews in the Union and Confederacy focused on their military service, in many cases hoping to extol Jewish bravery as an antidote to prejudice and present their service as a mark of ethnic pride. Fifty…
Guest Post by Min Hyoung Song In Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012, Wade Michael Page entered the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin during Sunday service and opened fired, killing six and wounding several others. He then turned his gun on himself. Page was a veteran of the army and was being tracked by the…
by Michele Callaghan TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. —Fred Friendly, president of CBS news and one of the people behind the creation of public television All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? —Nicholas Johnson, commissioner of the Federal…
by Michele Callaghan TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. —Fred Friendly, president of CBS news and one of the people behind the creation of public television All television is … Continue reading →
by Michele Callaghan TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. —Fred Friendly, president of CBS news and one of the people behind the creation of public television All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? —Nicholas Johnson, commissioner of the Federal…
Guest post by Jeremy Braddock This May, to great acclaim, and after more than a decade of acrimony and struggle, the Barnes Foundation opened in its new location in Center City Philadelphia. Bounded on three sides by the Rodin Museum, the main branch of the public library, and Whole Foods Market, in the shadow of…
Guest post by Jeremy Braddock This May, to great acclaim, and after more than a decade of acrimony and struggle, the Barnes Foundation opened in its new location in Center City Philadelphia. Bounded on three sides by the Rodin Museum, the main branch of the public library, and Whole Foods Market, in the shadow of…