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The Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad

The final volume of Albert J. Churella’s landmark series, The Pennsylvania Railroad, concludes the story of the iconic transportation company, covering its long decline from the 1930s to its merger with the New York Central Railroad in 1968.

Despite some parallels with World War I, the experience of World War II had a substantially different impact on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The introduction of new technologies, personnel, and commuter routes had significant effects on this giant of American transportation. The recession of 1958 sparked a period of decline from which it and many other railroads struggled to fully recover.
Racing to Justice

Racing to Justice

In Racing to Justice, renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have yet to achieve a truly post-racial society and that there is much work to be done to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy.
I Am Your Dust

I Am Your Dust

I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967 expands the boundaries of current studies of Israel’s cultural history by presenting and analyzing Yiddish-Israeli prose written during the country’s first two decades as an independent state. It offers a comprehensive study of that unique, and hitherto little understood, literature, a detailed historical documentation of the contexts of its production, and an eye-opening comparison of its themes to the more familiar outputs of Hebrew-Israeli prose.
Global Yorùbá

Global Yorùbá 

In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa’s largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people’s relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors.

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A Special Introduction to Victorian Studies 66.2 (Winter 2024)

By Sebastian Lecourt (University of Houston) and Winter Jade Werner (Wheaton College)

Read the full introduction for this special issue on Transimperial Religion for free on Project MUSE….

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E. M. Forster’s Nuclear Aesthetics: A Closer Look at JML 47.4

By Ryan James McGuckin, author of “E. M. Forster’s Female Musicality: Inconclusive Counter-romance in A Room with a View,” Journal of Modern Literature,…

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The Left Turns That Led to ‘Taking Funny Music Seriously’

On March 12, 2020, I gave a book talk at California State University, Bakersfield, celebrating the release of Weird Al: Seriously. I began that book because I had wanted to confront prejudices against funny music—ideas that humor in music was somehow less significant than so-called “serious” music or classical music….

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On the Deities of Samothrace

On the Deities of Samothrace

In 1815, F. W. J. Schelling presented a lecture titled "On the Deities of Samothrace" to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The lecture offered a startlingly original reading of the ancient Greek mystery...