John Harney

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Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com

An image of Ricardo Montalban as Khan near the end of Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. He utters the line "From hell's heart, I stab at thee."
A scene from Rocky IV; Rocky's friend Paulie is being brought a beer by his robot.
A screengrab from a New York Times piece on Charlie Sheen, sharing the following text: "These memories come back to him without warning, dangling over his thoughts like a mobile over a crib, when he is driving down the Pacific Coast Highway blaring Led Zeppelin, or watching the Cincinnati Reds at home. For nearly eight years, these thoughts, as disturbing as they are, have helped to keep him from crashing back into chaos."
Front and back covers of the book Dreams of a Young Republic by John Harney. The books are in a cardboard box, viewed from the top down.
Cover for the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The book cover for “Dreams of a Young Republic: The American Vincentians in China”. The cover features images of young Chinese catechists and a busy Chinese city street in the 1920s. The title motif also includes the five colors of the Republic of China flag of the early 1920s.
Still from the film Airheads: Steve Buscemi, Brendan Fraser and Adam Sandler.
Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Cover of Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle
Cover of The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe.
Cover of the book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier.
Screenshot of email sent out confirming GitHub user now has access to GitHub copilot.
Highly stylized cover of William Gibson’s Neuromancer (this is actually apparently the cover of a Brazilian edition)
Cover of Slade House by David Mitchell
Cover of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cover of the book Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. Cover features a young Douglass - this is the edition with an introduction by Bryan Stevenson.
Cover of Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe