By Beatriz Manz, cross-posted from The Berkeley Blog The dramatic surge in the number of Central American children and teenagers entering the US has created considerable concern among many in the United States. Already this year, 52,000 children have been apprehended. The latest estimates indicate that almost 90,000 …
Read More >Guest post by David Cateforis Even though he was one of the most famous and successful American artists of the twentieth century, Andrew Wyeth, whose haunting images of rural people, places, and …
Read More >Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi’s grandson and author of Gandhi, and Charles DiSalvo, author of M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law, along with the Hon. Sanjay Tailor (State of Illinois, Circuit Court of Cook County), …
Read More >As World Cup fervor gains intensity heading into the quarterfinals, we turn to the experts—namely Roger Kittleson, author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil—for some background …
Read More >Patricia Miller was interviewed on the show State of Belief with Rev. Welton Gaddy about the history of the “Scarlet ‘A’” in America—abortion. Her book, Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in …
Read More >Guest post by Cecilia Menjívar The prison is in the middle of nowhere, in the desert, about 45 minutes from Phoenix. To enter it, I had to go through a gate with …
Read More >Congratulations to Jamie Goode and Randall Grahm, both finalists for the 2014 Wine Blog Awards. Grahm’s Been Doon So Long Blog and Goode’s Wine Blog are nominated in the Best Overall Wine Blog category, and Been …
Read More >“In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals.” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene is proud to announce that it is now listed in …
Read More >Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor, Nicole …
Read More >In this guest post, UC Press author Joy H. Calico shares the origin story behind her new book, Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe. Calico was recently interviewed by the BBC’s Music …
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