04/19/2013
Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States Teresa Anne Murphy 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4489-2 | $42.50 | £28.00 A… READ MORE
04/15/2013
Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, a new book by University of Mississippi historian Robert L. Fleegler, traces the emergence of “contributionism,” the belief that the newcomers from eastern and southern Europe contributed important cultural and economic benefits to American society.
04/01/2013
A new article on the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s musical setting of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “A Corn Song” appears in the inaugural issue of J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Here,… READ MORE
03/14/2013
Happy Pi Day! We put an historical Pennsylvania Dutch twist on the mathematical celebration of 3/14 by eating shoofly pie and sharing a recipe for apple Schnitz pie, two the… READ MORE
03/08/2013
The women’s histories that were produced in the late eighteenth century promoted an ideal of domestic citizenship for women that was valued as a break from a less advanced past, and hence a sign of modernity, as well as a distinguishing characteristic of national virtue at a time when a market economy and new forms of political organization were reshaping the countries of Europe and the New World.
02/15/2013
Paul’s pick for February is “Infecting, Simulating, Judging: Tolstoy’s Search for an Aesthetic Standard” by Tatyana Gershkovich. The article appears in latest issue of the Journal of the History of… READ MORE
02/08/2013
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America Ella Howard 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4472-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook 2013 |… READ MORE
