Traditionalism v. Individualism: The Struggle of the Conservative Youth.
Cahn and Carbone explore the challenges a conservative-minded youth face in an liberal-acting world.
Happy Birthday Philip Roth!
An excerpt in honor of Philip Roth’s birthday.
The Rising: An Excerpt
An excerpt from The Rising.
Shakespeare, sex, and love: Recording sexual behaviour in the sixteenth century
It is in the nature of things that sexual behaviour that does not offend agreed norms makes no special stir. Even so it may be revealing. People masturbate, woo, marry, copulate, and give birth. Of these events the law requires only that marriages and, in Shakespeare’s time, baptisms rather than births be recorded. Analysis of such records may in itself illuminate the sexual mores of the period and, indeed, of Shakespeare and his family.
Should Everybody Write?
Or is There Enough Junk on the Internet Already?
Dennis Baron looks at the destabilizing technologies of communication.
A Week of Politics
Elvin Lim leads us through the current political landscape.
False Light Lawsuit Targets Authors
of Ohio Travel Book and Website
Author John A. Neuenschwander looks at false light lawsuits against the Weird Ohio book and blog.
Panic, Hysteria and Tight Corsets
Goodwin and Guze’s Psychiatric Diagnosis gives us a historical background to panic disorders and hysteria.
China Marine: A Son’s Perspective
John Sledge reflects on his father’s book.
The Oxford Companion to the Book
Taking a look at how the ebook format compares and contrasts with various book formats throughout history.
The Lives of the Pennine Miners
Geoff Coyle tells us about the lives of the miners who worked in the Pennines.
An American Aristocracy
Elvin Lim reflects on politics and the Oscars.
The Beatles and “Let It Be,”
6 March 1970
Gordon Thompson’s monthly music post.
Murder and the Boston Massacre
In honor of the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Richard Archer defends his belief that the Boston Massacre was in fact a purposeful killing by British soldiers.
Reckoning with the Ghost of Jim Williams:
The Supreme Court and the Burdens of History
Saul Cornell looks at the 2nd amendment.
Human Rights and the United States: Through a Mirror but Darkly
David P. Forsythe looks critically at the U.S.