I haven’t done a writing shed post in a while. Yesterday Lit Hub featured novelist Molly Prentiss‘s shed. A taste: When we’d decided to purchase a one-room house, we hadn’t considered that we’d be stuck inside of it, without access […]
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The Author’s Corner with Keidrick Roy
Keidrick Roy is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. This interview is based on his new book, American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
“Students would stop, perhaps look over at a bookshelf, or just say, point-blank, that they didn’t read.”Â
Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Beth McMurtrie writes: Students seem increasingly cynical about the value of college, transactional in their approach to learning, and frustrated by their coursework. On college tours and in admissions literature, they are promised […]
Ideas in progress: Colleen Vasconcellos on Jell-O, the history of piracy, and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise
This is Part I of a two-part post. Stay tuned for Part II coming next week, which will focus more on Colleen’s on-going research on enslaved girls and manumission in Jamaica. As you are getting ready for a new academic […]
The Author’s Corner with David Henkin
David Henkin is Professor of History at UC Berkeley. This interview is based on his new book, The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are (Yale University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to […]