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Guest Post by Teresa A. Meade and Leila J. Rupp Quite often, when we reflect on the field of women’s history and how it has developed over time, we use what the feminist scholar Clare Hemmings calls “progress narratives.” That is, we say that women’s history...

Happy Holidays from JHUP! We’d like to extend our 30% discount to you on all books featured in this email. Enter code HDPD at checkout to receive a 30% discount on all books featured in this blog post or mention this code when calling in your order at 1-800...

Guest post by Bryan MacKay Winter seems to have arrived early this year, with more snow, ice and cold temperatures in December than during the entire winter of 2012-13. With three full months of cold weather still ahead of us, we humans have a tendency to...

By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor Almost two hundred years ago, weavers displaced by the industrial revolution smashed the machines that they thought cost them their jobs. Heroes to some and “dinosaurs” to others, they saw their livelihood and way of...

The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. guest post by Susan J. Noonan, M.D., M.P.H. At this time of the year, many of us are surrounded by people and environments that...

Guest post by Janine Barchas Today puts another candle on the birthday cake of novelist Jane Austen, born 16 December 1775. Conveniently, Austen’s birthday coincides with the December gift-giving season. If you are thinking about making a holiday present of a...

By Brian Shea Journals PR and Advertising Coordinator NBC’s recent broadcast of a live version of “The Sound of Music” has musical theatre on the minds of many. Rumor has it that the network will make a live holiday musical a part of their strategy going...

guest post by Kay Harris Kriegsman, Ph.D. and Sara Palmer, Ph.D. “I look at her waking up of a morning. I sit right outside her bedroom door so she’ll see me there and feel safe knowing her granddad is there. We’ll build tents and take our flashlight inside...

guest post by John Bodnar Americans will soon be reminded again of the significance of December 7, 1941. For the past seventy-two years, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been recalled not only as the event that pushed America into World War II, but as a...

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. guest post by Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. Raccoons work hard to get into attics, sometimes...