Citizens should know their history when stepping up in November! The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki. Partisan fighting has a long and ugly history, and when an unleashed and easily accessible media could reach and...
How to get started on getting started. Many scholars—whether newbies or old-hands with writer’s block—easily get stuck when the time comes to present their book pitch to scholarly publishers. Writing eloquently to make a good case for a book pitch is already...
Movies seasons come and go, but great books about movies never leave readers! Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears By Michael Schulman It was the best of movies, it was the worst of fighting about movies, it was the cinema of wisdom, it was the...
It’s easier to get started on a project with a good start on getting started. Getting one foot in the door is crucial for anyone trying to make it into the guarded world of academia, a world historically shaped by exclusivity and discrimination, and grants are that...
Nonfiction can take many forms, and forming nonfiction needs the right guide. If writing and finishing fiction is difficult, then writing nonfiction seems to be an even steeper uphill battle: the right topic that will engage readers, the necessary research and...
There’s no better place to look for scares than real life. Hell Put to Shame: Thirteenth Amendment, Schmirteenth Amendment—at least, that was how white Southerners would have it after the Civil War and did have it. The injustice of slavery was in many ways simply...