The Page 99 Test

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Samuel Dolbee's "Locusts of Power"

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Samuel Dolbee is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. He is an environmental historian of the Otto...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Sharon Ann Murphy's "Banking on Slavery"

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Sharon Ann Murphy is Professor and Chair of the Department of History & Classics at Providence College. She applied the “ Page 99 Test...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

William Chapman Sharpe's "The Art of Walking"

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William Chapman Sharpe is professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, T...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Robert Mann's "Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU"

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Robert Mann holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He is the aut...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Mark Harrison's "Secret Leviathan"

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Mark Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, Secret Lev...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Huaping Lu-Adler's "Kant, Race, and Racism"

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Huaping Lu-Adler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. She specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century West...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Jerry Emory's "George Meléndez Wright"

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With four decades of conservation experience, Jerry Emory has written dozens of articles on the environment and science with a focus on Lat...
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Antón Barba-Kay's "A Web of Our Own Making"

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Antón Barba-Kay received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought in 2013. He was Professor of Philosophy a...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Eric Helleiner's "The Contested World Economy"

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Eric Helleiner is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Bart Elmore's "Country Capitalism"

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Bart Elmore is associate professor of environmental history at The Ohio State University and the 2022 recipient of the Dan David Prize. His...
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