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Illustration of two people grilling in their backyard surrounded by walls
Walled off
Published Summer 2025 Video
In 'Something Between Us,' anthropologist Anand Pandian explores the walls that divide America / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Jessica Marie Johnson
Research funding
Diaspora Solidarities Lab co-led by JHU historian will unite Black and ethnic studies across institutions
Published Feb 3, 2022
Jessica Marie Johnson will serve as co-principal investigator on a project that aims to bring the humanities and archival research to the community
An historical etching showing a woman vendor with basket, holding a chicken
History+Humanities
Archival project focuses on Colonial Louisiana
Published Jan 20, 2022
"Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana" project led by historian Jessica Marie Johnson will translate and bring to light records that are vital to the understanding of American history
Martha S. Jones
Nonfiction
Historian Martha Jones wins 'L.A. Times' Book Prize for history
Published April 23, 2021
Her book Vanguard closely examines the history of Black women's suffrage in America
Book cover of 'Wicked Flesh'
Nonfiction
They did more than survive
Published Fall 2020
Jessica Marie Johnson's 'Wicked Flesh' wrangles a wealth of scholarship and primary documents to discuss how Black women acquired and retained power in the 18th century / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Caleb McDaniel
Hopkins alum wins Pulitzer Prize for History
Published May 7, 2020
Caleb McDaniel received the prestigious award for his book Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Illustration of O'Donnell
Literature
Prose of war
Published Spring 2020
Michael O'Donnell didn't return home from the Vietnam War. His poetry did. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Stuart Schrader
Q+A
American policing in the Cold War era
Published Oct 16, 2019
In his new book, Stuart Schrader explores how U.S. foreign policy designed to contain communism abroad informed approaches to law enforcement at home
Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon in 1969
Hopkins retrospective
Moon landing memories
Published July 19, 2019 Video
As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing approaches, Johns Hopkins faculty members who watched the momentous event live recall on what it meant to them, and to science
Etching
Before "Farm to Table"
We are what they ate
Published Spring 2019
Exhibit traces the culinary heritage of the New World and the worldwide food exchange that emerged after Europeans traveled to the Americas / Johns Hopkins Magazine