May 13, 2015
James Bessen is an economist and lecturer at Boston University Law School. He is the author of Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth. In a recent conversation,… READ MORE
May 12, 2015
Ivy Sanders Schneider– American designers Charles and Ray Eames first began their collaboration in the early 1940s and continued to join creative forces – producing furniture, films, and architectural works –… READ MORE
Some of you might remember last year’s blog post about the weird things we found in our desks on our annual clean-up day. It was with no small amount of… READ MORE
May 11, 2015
Michael Satlow— Imagine Jesus as a boy. Growing up with his brothers and sisters in a Jewish home in the sleepy town of Nazareth, in lower Galilee, he almost certainly… READ MORE
May 8, 2015
David Ebony— From the late 1920s through the 1930s, Mexican artists Diego Rivera (1886-1957), and his wife Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), were one of the most famous art-world power couples on… READ MORE
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn… READ MORE
May 7, 2015
We’re co-posting today with The Metropolitan Museum of Art; editorial assistant Rachel High has interviewed award-winning photographer Platon, whose images grace the pages of the gorgeous new book China: Through the… READ MORE
The very first Mother’s Day was celebrated in 1908 in Grafton, West Virginia when Anna Jarvis’s held a memorial for her late mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, who had died in… READ MORE
May 6, 2015
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization will be a ten-volume collection of 3,000 years of Jewish literature, artwork, and artifacts. We sat down with Felix Posen, who conceived the… READ MORE
May 5, 2015
John M. Burkey— Good patient care requires careful listening. Sometimes this listening is not so difficult, however, as knowing what to do about what is heard. This story began several years… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic