A Few Questions For Robert Beisner
A Q and A with author Robert Beisner.
Lives Across The Pond: Benjamin West
A biography of Benjamin West.
Journalism Past and Present
Until the age of 50, Mencken was called “America’s Foremost Bachelor,” praised for being the patron saint of single men. When H. L. Mencken married Sara Powell Haardt in 1930, the press concluded that the author of “In Defense of Women” was probably in the most embarassing position of any fiancee in recent years. They were bent in trotting out the old quotes. How, reporters insisted with glee, will Mencken explain that he had once said “A man may be a fool and not know it –but not if he’s married.” Long before, he had defined love as “the delusion that one woman differs from another.” To these queries Mencken replied; “I formerly was not as wise as I am now….the wise man frequently revises his opinions. The fool, never.”
Negro Leagues: Cool Papa Bell
The Oxford African American Studies Center looks at Cool Papa Bell.
Top 10 Reasons our Constitution is Undemocratic
Top-ten reasons our Constitution is undemocratic.
Mourning Sheldon Meyer
Oxford University Press mourns Sheldon Meyer.
Why I Wrote The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Bart Ehrman talks about why he wrote his latest book, The Lost Gospels of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed.
A Few Questions for Bart Ehrman
Bart Ehrman answers some questions about his new book.
Columbus Day
A Columbus Day Tribute.
Negro Leagues: An Introduction
An introduction to the Negro Leagues and the AASC.
Women in Literature: Gwendolyn Brooks
A profile of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Golfing Greats from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
History from the DNB for Ryder Cup weekend.
Happy Birthday Upton Sinclair!
OUP wishes Upton Sinclair a happy birhtday.
A Few Questions for Geneive Abdo
OUP talks with author Geneive Abdo about her new book Mecca and Mainstreet.
Constitution Day
OUP presents an excerpt from Richard Labunski’s James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights to celebrate Constitution Day.
This Day in History: The Battle of Chapultepec
This Day in History and the Mexican War.