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By Walter A. Hunt, Ph.D. In 1997, I embarked on a journey that I dreaded taking, continuing a legacy that began over one hundred years ago. I inherited polycystic kidney disease, one that has been in my family for at least six generations. With this disease...

By Donald A. Mahler, M.D. “When you can’t breathe, nothing else matters!” captures the daily challenges for many individuals living with COPD. When first diagnosed, the meaning of the four letters - COPD - is often a mystery and requires an explanation. As the...

By Patrick Hastings As we celebrate the centenary of the first edition publication of James Joyce's Ulysses on February 2nd, it is worth taking stock of the continued relevance of this novel to readers and scholars today. Joyce famously claimed that he had...

At the Modern Language Association's (MLA) annual conference earlier this month, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) announced the winners of their annual awards competition. We are thrilled to announce that the February 2021 issue of the Journal...

The practice of "Dry January", choosing to abstain from alcohol for the first month of the year, originated in the UK in 2013 and has become increasingly popular, particularly since the onset of Covid-19. During the last three years, many people have turned to...

By Sara Polak On his dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC in 1997, President Bill Clinton said about FDR: “It was that faith in his own extraordinary potential that enabled him to guide his country from a wheelchair. And from that...

By Philip Tsang In December 2020, BBC released a radio documentary about Dorothy Bonarjee. Born into a Bengali Christian family in India in 1894, Bonarjee was sent to London for school at the age of ten. She later enrolled in the University College of Wales...

By Dane Morrison In his first State of the Union address in December 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt expressed his concerns about the state of the world in words that readers would have found familiar 120 years earlier. Roosevelt drew attention particularly...

By Nigel Rothfels For six years, now, I have had this Charlie Hankin cartoon on my refrigerator, clipped from a New Yorker and sent to me by my sister. Writing a book about elephants, I guess, inevitably leads to receiving a stream of elephant-themed kitsch...

By Rebecca A. Glazier By about my second semester of teaching online, I knew I had a problem. I was an engaged and enthusiastic teacher in the classroom. Still, I received no training in teaching online, and transitioning my lectures and discussions into an...