The Excerpt—Cornell University PressComing Up Close to HomelessnessThe Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who…5 min read·Jun 23, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressCharlottesville and the Politics of HateIn the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider’s view on the violent confrontations in…6 min read·Jun 23, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressOpportunism, Resistance, Folly: Our Complicated Relationship With WeedsLives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina…5 min read·Jun 23, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressThe Long Wait for the Next Train in New York CityLast Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City’s struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and…5 min read·Jun 23, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressNotes From the FieldJohn Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful field notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us…5 min read·Jun 23, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressHow Technology Shapes Social RevolutionsIn The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of “social innovation moments” in American history. Through these moments —…5 min read·Jun 14, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressLife With Severe AutismIn this collection of beautiful and raw essays, Amy S. F. Lutz writes openly about her experience — the positive and the negative — as a…5 min read·Jun 14, 2021--1--1
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressToday’s Legal Issues through the lens of Hamilton the MusicalSince its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who…5 min read·May 7, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressA Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New YorkOn the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the…5 min read·Apr 23, 2021----
The Excerpt—Cornell University PressHow Adolescence Transformed the Adult WorldTeen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil…6 min read·Apr 9, 2021----
