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This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...

A conference at Yale University on marginality and canonicity inspired Marco Formisano and Serafina Cuomo to take a look at the work of ancient architect Vitruvius. That interest led to a recent special issue of the journal Arethusa on Vitruvius and his...

Jason and I first met at the International Equine Science Meeting in Regensburg, Germany in 2008 and discussed the difficulties of counting wild equids. We ended up doing exactly that just two years later – counting Asiatic wild asses or khulan in Great Gobi B...

This past June, the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) gathered in Philadelphia to discuss trends and innovation in the university press publishing realm. While there, our own editorial director, Mr. Greg Britton, was awarded the AAUP...

I have a confession to make: I wrote a book about the history of refrigeration in the United States, but I didn’t realize that Seven Eleven started life as an ice delivery company until a radio producer told me. To be fair, there were many, many ice companies...

The following is an excerpt from David N. Lucsko’s Junyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past in honor of National Collector Car Appreciation Day. From the 1890s through the 1920s, automobiles were seldom “re- stored.” At most they were...

This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...

Daniel Taylor's Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures is now in its second edition. In honor of this updated take on commmunity-based public health, we did a Q&A with the author: Q: Why did you write Just and Lasting Change? Writing any...

The following is a press release from Wilkes University about JHU Press author Michael Steele’s latest accolade: the National Science Foundation’s OPUS Award. Steele is the author of several JHU Press books, including Squirrels of the World, Terrestrial...

Mary Lincoln has been a mystery for more than 150 years. Irritable as the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, erratic as First Lady, and frankly psychotic as a widow, she died at the young age of 63 after years of unusual physical symptoms and progressively...