As part of our Independence Day series, we're offering an excerpt from Radicals in America on how the Fourth of July poses a radical duality present throughout revolutionary movements in American history.
Read MoreIt's July, and with Independence Day right around the corner, we're dedicating a week of posts to the latest scholarship on American history, liberation, and revolution. To kick things off, William Rorabaugh offers an excerpt from his latest book, American Hippies.
Read MoreFrom the moment I first saw the enigmatic Scottish carved stone balls, I was intrigued. Although many purposes had been suggested for their purpose during the Neolithic, none had included the possibility that they were memory devices. Yet their size, designs and archaeological contexts matched the pattern of such objects that I had found in […]
Read MoreRonald Batchelor, author of A Reference Grammar of Spanish, explores the grammatical differences between English and Spanish.
Read MoreSimon Palfrey, the author of Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds, offers up a new model for appreciating Shakespeare's world--both the world he creates and the real one his writing reflects.
Read MoreHow often do we discourage our children from handling dangerous objects--things like matches and knives? Are we protecting them, or failing to let them learn valuable lessons about the world we live in? David F. Lancy, the author of The Anthropology of Childhood, breaks down these questions from an anthropological stance.
Read MoreValentin Bellassen, author of Accounting for Carbon: Monitoring, Reporting and Verifying Emissions in the Climate Economy (2015), explores the requirements for the MRV of countries’ emissions and considers how this can be successfully extended to cover emerging and developing countries.
Read MoreYellowlees Douglas, author of The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer (2015), explores how the teaching of writing is leaving some people ill-prepared for the workplace.
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