Overview
Most recently, I worked as an acquisitions editor at the University of North Carolina Press, where I was responsible for acquiring and editing work in creative nonfiction, documentary studies, health and medicine and the social sciences and humanities. Before that, I published literary scholarship, poetry, and creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa Press. I bring a wealth of experience as an acquisitions editor, a developmental editor, a line editor, and a careful judge of the strengths of projects and how to make them stronger. I'm eager to work with both first-time and experienced authors.
Testimonials:
I worked with Joe on my first book, and he was phenomenal. He knows how the publishing world works and uses that knowledge to help new authors get their work done quickly and effectively without sacrificing their intellectual integrity. It is so important to work with an editor who understands the little things authors need to do to get their works to press. He has an uncanny way of pulling out what's best in a project, and talking to him about my book actually helped me get it done a lot faster.As an African American woman, it was especially comforting to work with an editor who not only understood the work I was trying to do but also the obstacles I was facing to get it done. He is rigorous, meticulous, and compassionate all at the same time.He has a terrific reputation among up-and-coming scholars, and I would happily work with him again on future projects.
--Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University, "Written Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure"
Joe shepherded three of my books through the publication process, from acquisition to delivery of the final manuscript to the publisher. In each case he acted as the consummate professional—a smart and humane editor, compassionate critic, and thoughtful advisor. He also displayed a wonderfully ironic sense of humor, which helped immensely during those stressful times that are an inevitable part of most author’s writing experience. Joe cares deeply about high-quality writing and I sincerely hope that I will have the opportunity to work with him again, on another book project.
--Christopher Norment, SUNY at Brockport, "Relicts of a Beautiful Sea" (University of North Carolina Press), "In the Memory of the Map" (University of Iowa Press), and "Return to Warden’s Grove" (University of Iowa Press)
Joe helped to make my transition into the world of publishing surprisingly graceful. He acquired my first book for publication and helped me visualize and execute the remainder of the book in a manner that was organic and seamless. Beyond that, publishing this book brought up some discomfort for me and even after it was released Joe ended up serving as an indispensable mentor through that process. He is a rare bird indeed, unlike most people I’ve encountered in the publishing world. I can say without pause that his heart is in the right place.
--Aisha Sabatini Sloan, contributing editor, “Guernica Magazine,” and author of “The Fluency of Light” (University of Iowa Press)
Testimonials:
I worked with Joe on my first book, and he was phenomenal. He knows how the publishing world works and uses that knowledge to help new authors get their work done quickly and effectively without sacrificing their intellectual integrity. It is so important to work with an editor who understands the little things authors need to do to get their works to press. He has an uncanny way of pulling out what's best in a project, and talking to him about my book actually helped me get it done a lot faster.As an African American woman, it was especially comforting to work with an editor who not only understood the work I was trying to do but also the obstacles I was facing to get it done. He is rigorous, meticulous, and compassionate all at the same time.He has a terrific reputation among up-and-coming scholars, and I would happily work with him again on future projects.
--Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University, "Written Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure"
Joe shepherded three of my books through the publication process, from acquisition to delivery of the final manuscript to the publisher. In each case he acted as the consummate professional—a smart and humane editor, compassionate critic, and thoughtful advisor. He also displayed a wonderfully ironic sense of humor, which helped immensely during those stressful times that are an inevitable part of most author’s writing experience. Joe cares deeply about high-quality writing and I sincerely hope that I will have the opportunity to work with him again, on another book project.
--Christopher Norment, SUNY at Brockport, "Relicts of a Beautiful Sea" (University of North Carolina Press), "In the Memory of the Map" (University of Iowa Press), and "Return to Warden’s Grove" (University of Iowa Press)
Joe helped to make my transition into the world of publishing surprisingly graceful. He acquired my first book for publication and helped me visualize and execute the remainder of the book in a manner that was organic and seamless. Beyond that, publishing this book brought up some discomfort for me and even after it was released Joe ended up serving as an indispensable mentor through that process. He is a rare bird indeed, unlike most people I’ve encountered in the publishing world. I can say without pause that his heart is in the right place.
--Aisha Sabatini Sloan, contributing editor, “Guernica Magazine,” and author of “The Fluency of Light” (University of Iowa Press)
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Health & Wellbeing
History
Humanities & Social Sciences
Nature
Political Science & Current Affairs
Writing & Publishing
Fiction
Cultural & Ethnic
Literary Fiction
Poetry
Languages
English (US)
Awards
- 2015 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award from the Division of Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for Zandria Robinson, "This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (University of North Carolina Press, 2014)
- 2015 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, American Sociological Association for Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, "Behind the White Picket: Fence Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood" (University of North Carolina Press, 2014)
- 2017 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine, for Johanna Schoen, "Abortion after Roe" (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
- 2017 Bancroft Prize for Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers" (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
Work experience
University of North Carolina Press
Dec, 2011 —
Dec, 2016
(about 5 years)
• Worked in close collaboration with the director, editorial director, fellow editors, press board, series editors, and other colleagues to shape the editorial program by acquiring and publishing 20–25 trade books and scholarly books in the social sciences and humanities annually.
• Advised authors on all phases of manuscript preparation.
• Worked with marketing department to develop promotional campaigns for acquired titles.
• Represented press at national and regional scholarly meetings and campus events at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere.
• Provided managing editor and design and production manager with comprehensive details about each book's editorial and production requirements.
• Shared responsibility for determining print runs, prices, and reprints.
• Wrote catalog and cover copy for acquired titles.
• Participated in fundraising activities.
• Mentored junior colleagues and interns to foster their professional development.
University of Iowa Press
Nov, 2005 —
Oct, 2011
(almost 6 years)
• Collaborated with director, editorial advisory board, series editors, and other colleagues to shape the editorial program by acquiring 20–25 trade books and scholarly books in the humanities disciplines annually.
• Together with the managing editor, advise authors on all phases of manuscript preparation.
• Collaborated with the marketing department to develop promotional campaigns for acquired titles.
• As a member of management team, set priorities, communicated status, problems, and issues, and participated in long- and short-range strategic and editorial planning.
• Represented press at professional meetings and campus events.
• Communicated to the managing editor and design and production manager complete information about each book's editorial and production requirements.
• With the director and marketing manager, shared responsibility for determining print runs, prices, and reprints.
• With the managing editor and design and production manager, shared responsibility for maintaining editorial and production standards.
• Wrote grant applications and participated in fundraising activities.
• Wrote catalog and cover copy for acquired titles.
• Mentored editorial interns.
Self-employed
Sep, 2002 —
Nov, 2011
(about 9 years)
Independent Contractor and Consultant, Evanston, Illinois
• Edited book and journal manuscripts for the University of Chicago Press. Oxford University Press, University of Texas Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, MIT Press, University of Illinois Press, Brookings Institution Press, Georgetown University Press, University of South Carolina Press, University of Hawai`i Press, Northwestern University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Ohio University Press, Contemporary Books/McGraw Hill, PMLA, the American Journal of Neuroradiology, and the American Bar Association.
• Provided substantive editing services to authors affiliated with Harvard University, Oxford University, Duke University, Connecticut College, the World Bank, and the Columbia University East Asian Institute.
Portfolio
The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This uniqu... read more
Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers’ claims has been suspect. In this ... read more
Metawriting—the writing about writing or writing that calls attention to itself as writing—has been around since Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy, but Jill Talbot makes that case that now more than ever the act of metawriting is performed on a daily basis by an... read more
Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss ... read more
'Plain and Ugly Janes' defines and explores the ramifications of a character type in 20th century American literature - the ugly woman - whose roots can be traced to the old maid/spinster figure of the 19th century.
Today, copyright is everywhere, surrounded by a thicket of no trespassing signs that mark creative work as private property. Caren Irr’s Pink Pirates asks how contemporary novelists—represented by Ursula Le Guin, Andrea Barrett, Kathy Acker, and Leslie Marmon ... read more
In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to th... read more
Robert Scholes’s now classic Rise and Fall of English was a stinging indictment of the discipline of English literature in the United States. In English after the Fall, Scholes moves from identifying where the discipline has failed to providing concrete soluti... read more
When both France and Holland rejected the proposed constitution for the European Union in 2005, the votes reflected popular anxieties about the entry of Turkey into the European Union as much as they did ambivalence over ceding national sovereignty. Indeed, th... read more
In the 1840s and 1850s, as the market revolution swept the United States, the world of literature confronted for the first time the gaudy glare of commercial culture. Amid growing technological sophistication and growing artistic rejection of the soullessness ... read more
The experimental artist Peter Fischli once observed, “There’s certainly a subversive pleasure in occupying yourself with something for an unreasonable length of time.” In this same spirit, David Dowling takes it upon himself to attend and report on the all-con... read more
By the end of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was well on his way to becoming the “Wisest American” and the “Sage of Concord,” a literary celebrity and a national icon. With that fame came what Robert Habich describes as a blandly sanctified versio... read more
Alice beyond Wonderland explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll’s imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, all introduced by Karoline Leach’s edgy foreword, Alice beyond Wo... read more
When Donald Justice wrote in “On a Picture by Burchfield” that “art keeps long hours,” he might have been describing his own life. Although he early on struggled to find a balance between his life and art, the latter became a way of experiencing his life more ... read more
In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the line? Emily R... read more
Western literature has had a long tradition of physician-writers. From Mikhail Bulgakov to William Carlos Williams to Richard Selzer to Ethan Canin, exposure to human beings at their most vulnerable has inspired fine writing. In his own inimitable and unpreten... read more
From the fictional portrayal of Dr. Gregory House to Jerome Groopman's bestseller How Doctors Think, both medical professionals and the general public recognize that there is more to the doctor's job than technical practice. Yet why do so many patients come aw... read more
Recent surveys of medical students reveal stark conditions: more than a quarter have experienced episodes of depression during their medical school and residency careers, a figure much higher than that of the general population. Compounded by long hours of int... read more
Each year, more than 15,000 U.S. medical students—along with more than 18,000 graduates of foreign medical schools and schools of osteopathic medicine—take part in the National Residency Matching Program, vying for a small number of positions in the United Sta... read more
Imagine being a young poet, nurturing your craft without the benefit of established mentors. Imagine having never been in a class taught by a woman poet or not having a bookshelf filled with books written by living women poets. Luckily, young women poets today... read more
In the decade ahead, more than 80 million Americans will reach the age of retirement and face what Robin Chapman and Judith Strasser call “the unnerving question, What next?” Indeed, according to the Social Security Administration, the number of Americans sixt... read more
Since the time of Blackstone's "Farewell," poetry has been seen as celestial, pastoral, solitary, and mellifluous; law as venerable, social, urban, and cacophonous. This perception has persisted even to the present, with the bourgeoning field of law and litera... read more
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In response to a lack of source works for wide-ranging approaches to teaching poetry, award-winning poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson has gathered ninety-nine micro-essays for poets, critics, and scholars who teach and for students who wish to learn about the many w... read more
Bringing together penetrating conversations between poets of different generations as they explore process and poetics, poetry’s influence on other art forms, and the political and social aspects of their work, 12 × 12 restores poesis to the center of poetry. ... read more
Since 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, fewer than half of them are accused of committing any hostile act against the United States or its allies. In hundreds of... read more
In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explor... read more
Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in liter... read more
A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and ha... read more
In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents, examines the experience of her mixed race identity. Embracing the far-ranging stimuli of her media-obsessed upbringing... read more
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Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch’s Burroughs Award–winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound. Although Krutch—often called the Cactus Walden—came to the desert relatively late in his life, his curiosity and delight in his s... read more
The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experienc... read more
Jeffrey Hammond’s Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties is the story of a middle-aged man’s sudden compulsion to collect the toys of his childhood: specifically themed playsets produced by the Louis Marx Toy Company. Hammond never ma... read more
Based on three seasons of field research in the Canadian Arctic, Christopher Norment’s exquisitely crafted meditation on science and nature, wildness and civilization, is marked by bottomless prose, reflection on timeless questions, and keen observations of th... read more
Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds... read more
Whether the subject is the plants that grow there, the animals that live there, the rivers that run there, or the people he has known there, Paul Lindholdt’s In Earshot of Water illuminates the Pacific Northwest in vivid detail. Lindholdt writes with the preci... read more
In Great Expectation, Dan Roche gives a man's perspective on what it means to start and expand a family relatively later in life. Through a series of diary entries in turns humorous, angst ridden, and full of hope and joy, Roche describes his own thoughts and ... read more
Donald Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer, has compiled a haunting anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. Alvord White Clements—himself a veteran of the Second World War—introduces his grandfather Isaac ... read more
The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities th... read more
"Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took off most of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were the same color as you. As your daddy got richer, you got to do them in fancier places." Starting with her ... read more
When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school’s white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything. She soon discovered how these low... read more
In a series of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores in vivid, sometimes graphic detail the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer—and heal. Mapping the diseases and injuries that can afflict the body, the author asks how... read more
Wisenberg may have lost a breast, but she retained her humor, outrage, and skepticism toward common wisdom and most institutions. While following the prescribed protocols at the place she called Fancy Hospital, Wisenberg is unsparing in her descriptions of the... read more
Peter Selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood. The son of Italian immigrants—his father an electronics inventor and a mother so good looking UPS drivers swerved off their routes to see her—Selgin spent his formative years scrambling among the hat f... read more
A vivid archive of memories, Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies layers scenes, portraits, dreams, and narratives in a dynamic cross-cultural mosaic. Bringing her lyrical tenor to bear on stories as diverse as harboring teen runaways, gunfights with federales, and ... read more
Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers. Literary types know Henry James; psychologists, philosophers, and religion scholars know William James. In reality, the brothers' minds were inseparable, as the more than eight hundred letters t... read more
For William Blake, living is creating, conforming is death, and “the imagination . . . is the Human Existence itself.” But why are imagination and creation—so vital for Blake—essential for becoming human? And what is imagination? What is creation? How do we cr... read more
The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, A Brighter Word T... read more
Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relat... read more
Conceptions and practices of poetry change not only from time to time and from place to place but also from poet to poet. This has never been more the case than in recent years. Gerald Bruns’s magisterial What Are Poets For? explores typographical experiments ... read more
By the mid-1960s, New American poets and Underground filmmakers had established a vibrant community. Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Frank O’Hara joined Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, and Andy Warhol... read more
Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s Renegade Poetics separates what we think we know about black aesthetics from the more complex and nuanced possi... read more
Were the urbane, avant-garde poets of the New York School secretly nature lovers like Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard? In Urban Pastoral, Timothy Gray urges us to reconsider our long-held appraisals of Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, ... read more
The damage humans have perpetrated on our environment has certainly affected a poet’s means and material. But can poetry be ecological? Can it display or be invested with values that acknowledge the economy of interrelationship between the human and the nonhum... read more
In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the bu... read more
When Lorine Niedecker died in 1970, the British poet and critic Basil Bunting eulogized her warmly. “In England,” he wrote, “she was, in the estimation of many, the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced.” Aesthetically linked with the New York O... read more
In Racial Things, Racial Forms, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon focuses on a coterie of underexamined contemporary Asian American poets—Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and John Yau—who reject many of the characteristics of traditional minority... read more
What is patriarchal poetry? How can it be both attractive and tempting and yet be so hegemonic that it is invisible? How does it combine various mixes of masculinity, femininity, effeminacy, and eroticism? At once passionate and dispassionate, Rachel Blau DuPl... read more
In this capacious and challenging book, Maria Damon surveys the poetry and culture of the United States in two distinct but inextricably linked periods. In part 1, “Identity K/not/e/s,” she considers the America of the 1950s and early 1960s, when contentious a... read more
In Hold-Outs, Bill Mohr, long a figure on the Los Angeles poetry scene, reveals the complicated evolution of the literary landscape in a city famous for its production of corporate culture. Mohr’s multigenerational account of the role of the poet-editor-publis... read more
By any measure—international reputation, influence upon fellow writers and later generations, number of books published, scholarly and critical attention—Robert Creeley (1926–2005) is a literary giant, an outstanding, irreplaceable poet. For many decades reade... read more
Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium “Poetry and the... read more
From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that 51 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their public schools to meet not only educational b... read more
The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic and mixed-income neighborhoods still harbor the... read more
System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Often categorized as dependent and delinquent, these young women routinely become wards of the state as t... read more
One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominate... read more
Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodi... read more
In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and... read more
In this highly original work, Thomas D. Wilson offers surprising new insights into the origins of the political storms we witness today. Wilson connects the Ashley Cooper Plan--a seventeenth-century model for a well-ordered society imagined by Anthony Ashley C... read more
How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. As Genevieve Siegel-Hawley argues in this thought-provoking book, within our metropolitan areas we ar... read more
The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justi... read more
The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubb... read more
In C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution, A. Javier Trevino reconsiders the opinions, perspectives, and insights of the Cubans that Mills interviewed during his visit to the island in 1960. On returning to the United States, the esteemed and controversial s... read more
The origin story of hip-hop—one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx—has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used ar... read more
From 1950 until 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of... read more
This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. With a new f... read more
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered... read more
We are in a bind," writes Evelyn M. Perry. While conventional wisdom asserts that residential racial and economic integration holds great promise for reducing inequality in the United States, Americans are demonstrably not very good at living with difference. ... read more
When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America’s atomic past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The result, Oppenheimer Is Watchi... read more
From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific progr... read more
Although the rate of gun ownership in U.S. households has declined from an estimated 50 percent in 1970 to approximately 32 percent today, Americans' propensity for carrying concealed firearms has risen sharply in recent years. Today, more than 11 million Amer... read more
In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, an... read more
When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago" In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed throug... read more
On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twen... read more
The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and administrators discriminate in ways that range from unintentional to malignant. Stories abound of schol... read more
Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. ... read more
From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views ... read more
The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantity and quality of individual and public health while contributing trillions of dollars to the global economy. In spite of these past successes--and indeed because of them--our ability to del... read more
In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education--from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education--in historical context. In doing so, he traces the evolution of m... read more
From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gain... read more
Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But, as Kathryn Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Hollyw... read more
In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounde... read more
In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. ... read more
Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the deser... read more
After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricade... read more
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