Gutenberg-e, the high-profile digital history monograph series published by Columbia University Press in collaboration with the American Historical Association, has gone open access. The monographs are also available, with some enhancements (related historiography etc.), through the Humanities E-Book project run by the American Council of Learned Societies. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“History Written in the Blink of an Eye”
A special issue of the Journal of American History gives scholars a chance to think historically about a catastrophic recent event--the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. It's an interesting example of what some call the search for a usable past." The journal's editors also created a website that expands on the print edition as well as linking to lots of other Katrina-related material." Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“Creative-Writing Advocates Take Up the Cause of Reading”
New guidelines for undergraduate creative-writing instruction promote the very sensible idea that to be an expert writer, you first have to learn to be an expert reader. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“Writing in a Different Voice”
The social psychologist Carol Gilligan made a splash 26 years ago with In a Different Voice, which took developmental psychology to task for its insistence that male experience defined human experience. Now she's written a novel, Kyra. Why? Read More at The Chronicle Review (subscription only) »
“Library of Congress Report Urges Libraries to Update Cataloguing Strategies”
The Library of Congress is the mother ship of U.S. libraries. Has it shouldered too much of the cataloguing burden? What's the best use of finite library resources? This report has some suggestions. I co-wrote this article with my Chronicle colleague Andrea Foster. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
