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History
History project
The Johns Hopkins story
Published May 2013
Professor, historian Bill Leslie commissioned to write JHU history book / Gazette
Southern slaves
Ownership society among slaves
Published Spring 2013
Historian Dylan Penningroth argues that allowing slaves to own property was less about leniency and more about self-interest / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Punk prayers and Russian dissidence
Published Winter 2012
Professor Nikolay Koposov on Pussy Riot, political dissidence, and Russia's "memory laws" / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Free market musing
Published Winter 2012
Department of History Associate Professor Angus Burgin explores the history of free market philosophies / Johns Hopkins Magazine
'Jews on the Move' explores suburban exodus
Published Oct 15, 2012
Student-curated exhibit opens Oct. 17 at Homewood campus
Bibliotheca fictiva
Published Fall 2012
Johns Hopkins just acquired a massive collection of books and manuscripts—every last one of them fake. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
OLD SCHOOL
Minding the Middle Ages
Published July 26, 2012
History professor Gabrielle Spiegel specializes in the content, structure, and meaning of surviving medieval manuscripts
Richard Kagan and Manuel Colás-Gil
The read on culture
Published Summer 2012
For Manuel Colás-Gil, the possibility of working with professor Richard Kagan, who has taught early modern European history since 1972, was a bonus in his decision to pursue his doctorate in Romance languages at Johns Hopkins / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Property rights and wrongs
Published Spring 2012
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Prayer Book of Hans Luneborch, in Low German
Illuminating Manuscript
Published Spring 2012
A rare 15th-century illuminated manuscript in the Peabody Library's collection was presumed lost for decades; and then it mysteriously turned up in the mail / Johns Hopkins Magazine