07/14/2012
By marrying the brother of one of the most powerful men in the world, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte became a national–actually, an international–celebrity. Far from being a modest, respectable wife who, according to American social expectations, would find happiness within her home rather than in the public sphere, Elizabeth relished being in the public eye.
07/10/2012
The fact is Democrats’ allergy to tax hikes is nothing new. Despite their party’s reputation, Democratic liberals have long been reluctant to raise taxes on the majority of Americans — even to pay for politically popular programs.
07/09/2012
C. Dallett Hemphill, Professor of History at Ursinus College, is the new editor of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
07/02/2012
“It’s not simply kids having fun at a roller skating rink. It’s that when you associate certain kinds of spaces with cleanliness, safety, and fun that exclude people of color, then that association has powerful cultural and political effects long after desegregation actually happens,” says Wolcott.
06/25/2012
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic Charlene M. Boyer Lewis 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4430-4 | $34.95… READ MORE
06/21/2012
Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States Edward Cahill 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
06/20/2012
Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America Gillian Silverman 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4415-1 | $55.00… READ MORE
06/20/2012
Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391 Paola Tartakoff 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4421-2 |… READ MORE
06/20/2012
The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 432 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4414-4 |… READ MORE
06/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for June… READ MORE
