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Discovering the Deep Photo Contest

Thanks to everyone who submitted to our photo contest for Discovering the Deep! And the winner is… Shore crab with eggs Photo by: Tom Hartman Taken on the beach at Filey Brigg, Yorkshire, UK with...

23 Sep 2015

Innovation Measurement – Getting it Right

Measuring innovation in organisations is a tricky business. What inputs drive the innovation process? What outputs and outcomes result from it? What parameters connect the inputs to the outputs in a meaningful...

David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley | 21 Sep 2015

A Hero’s Story

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17 Sep 2015

Inside John Copeland

John Anthony Copeland, Jr. was a heroic figure at the center of John Brown's fight against slavery and his raid on Harper's Ferry, but he is just a footnote in most accounts of the momentous raid. Steven Lubet, the author of The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry, talks about what his decision to bring Copeland's narrative to light and the surprising discoveries he made along the way.

16 Sep 2015

A Hero at Harper’s Ferry

Take a peek inside The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry, the story of John Anthony Copeland, Jr. and his role in the fight for U.S. emancipation.

15 Sep 2015

Explore the Life of John Anthony Copeland, Jr.

Steven Lubet’s The “Colored Hero” of Harper’s Ferry reveals the incredible untold story of a 25-year-old black man, born free in North Carolina and committed to the abolitionist...

14 Sep 2015

Living on the Edge

Uriel Abulof, the author of The Mortality and Morality of Nations, meditates on global existential threats and fears.

Uriel Abulof | 11 Sep 2015

The Nanoscale

Douglas Natelson, the author of Nanostructures and Nanotechnology, takes on the controversy of nanoscience.

Douglas Natelson | 8 Sep 2015

Interwar Paris and Third World Nationalism

Historian Michael Goebel gives a compelling narrative of the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars. Anti-Imperial Metropolis is part of the Global...

7 Sep 2015

Ending World War II

Introduction to Part I by Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze The First World War had been won by global economic force. The global superiority of the victorious powers, foremost the USA and Great Britain, was...

4 Sep 2015

WWII’s French Colonial POWs

Introduction A Soldier’s Story In the evening of June 16 , 1940 , a reconnaissance regiment of the ninth German tank division appeared at the eastern gates of the French city La Charité-sur-Loire....

Raffael Scheck | 3 Sep 2015

WWII in the Mediterranean

Introduction For midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, the social highlight of their second year is the Ring Dance. It is an event replete with tradition and symbolism during which...

Andrew Buchanan | 2 Sep 2015