Book Channel readers may have noticed an apparent uptick in the pace of university libraries purging their stacks to make room for multimedia spaces and other amenities. A new article by Sarah E.
Book Channel readers following developments in editing will be interested in a new interview from the CBC with editor Gregory Younging, whose Elements of Indigenous Style came out last month. In addition to addressing the challenges facing Indigenous authors, Younging discusses issues of editorial style and preserving the author's voice.
Book Channel readers will enjoy the newest commissioned essay in our Teaching Essays series. Dr. Geraldine Heng of the University of Texas at Austin has written strategies for incorporating "Race in the European Middle Ages" into art history, literature, religious studies, and history courses.
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new commissioned essay on the H-Net Book Channel. Dr. Rebecca Karl of NYU has written a beautiful tribute to her friend and colleague, historian Marilyn B. Young. As both a scholar and an activist, Dr. Young critiqued America's military interventions in Vietnam and elsewhere. Dr.
The Book Channel is delighted to bring you our latest original essay, Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe, by Olena Nikolayenko, Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. Dr.
The editor of the American Historical Review, Alex Lichtenstein, has posted an essay, "Decolonizing the AHR," to discuss upcoming changes to the journal.
Book Channel subscribers, and fans of new academic works more broadly, will be interested to discover the New Books Network. This consortium of podcasts, sponsored by Amherst College Press, posts audio interviews with authors about their new scholarly publications. With over sixty new interviews per month in dozens of academic fields, New Books Network podcasts are another great source of information about and discussion of academic books.
Book Channel readers will note with interest a story from Inside Higher Ed about progress made by Lever Press toward its first publications later this year. Launched in 2016, Lever Press is a new initiative to publish rigorous academic works that were "born digital" and intended for access online.
The Center for Research Libraries is an international consortium that collects research materials and makes them available to members. While the majority of the collections are in print or microfilm, digitization efforts contribute to an ever-growing body of resources accessible online.
Book Channel readers may be interested in an ethical and methodological question posed by Theresa Harrington for The Atlantic: "Should history textbooks 'out' LGBT figures?"
Harrington cites a new California law to adopt K-12 history textbooks that highlight the contributions of LGBT people. The conundrum, of course, is how to discuss the identities of people who would not have referred to themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, etc. during their own lifetimes.
