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'Window on the suburbs'
Published May 8, 2014
JHU's Sheridan Libraries makes Roland Park Company records available to researchers
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Dissecting Godzilla
Published May-June 2014
JHU East Asia expert discusses film franchise reboot in the shadow of Japan's recent nuclear disaster / Gazette
My view
Eighteenth-century selfies?
Published May-June 2014
Elaborate European festival books at Sheridan Libraries are 'kind of the Twitter or the Facebook of the early modern [period]' / Gazette
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Nazis, stolen art, and George Clooney
Published Jan-Feb 2014 Video
Molly Warnock, an assistant professor of art history, discusses why the Nazis cared so much about art, subject of the forthcoming film 'The Monuments Men' / Gazette
Birds-eye view
Sky-high archaeology
Published Winter 2013
Satellites provide a lay of the land to researchers studying archeological histories. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Starr turn
This old house
Published Oct 2013
SAIS professor chronicles his transformation of a New Orleans plantation house / Gazette
Among Giants
Published Fall 2013
Baseball's collective memory is long, but Ed Mackall's story remains unfamiliar / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The march, 50 years later
A call for economic justice
Published Aug 26, 2013 Video
JHU history professor discusses the significance of the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963
Action heroes
Published Summer 2013
The untold story of American nurses and medics behind Nazi lines / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Dear Abe
Published Summer 2013 Video
An 1862 letter from Johns Hopkins to Abraham Lincoln offers one fascinating clue to Hopkins' personality—and influence / Johns Hopkins Magazine