Heavenly Ambitions–Now Available
05/29/2009
Heavenly Ambitions: America's Quest to Dominate Space Joan Johnson-Freese 192 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4169-3 | $29.95 | £19.50 In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese lays… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
Bloom on Sotomayor and the NYC projects on The Brian Lehrer Show
05/28/2009
Yesterday Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing that Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, spoke with WNYC's Brian Lehrer about New York's housing projects, where Judge Sonia Sotomayor… READ MORE
When Broadway Was the Runway–Now Available
05/27/2009
When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture Marlis Schweitzer 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 47 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4157-0 | $39.95 | £26.00… READ MORE
Madison Avenue and the Color Line
05/26/2009
Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry Jason Chambers 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Paper Jan 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2060-5 |… READ MORE
The Future of Human Rights–Now in Paperback
05/26/2009
The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era Edited by William F. Schulz 328 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4111-2 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
Frantic Panoramas–Now Available
05/19/2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Nancy Bentley 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4174-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Conducting close readings of writers… READ MORE
Special Event: Elijah Anderson and Against the Wall Contributors at the Inn at Penn Wed. Night
05/12/2009
Join the authors of Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male in the Living Room at the Inn at Penn (3600 Sansom Street) on Wednesday, May 13 from 5:00… READ MORE
“Miscegenation”: Making Race in America–Now in Paperback
05/12/2009
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America Elise Lemire 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus. Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3664-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2064-3… READ MORE
2 North Carolina Papers on Miller’s Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South
05/11/2009
The Winston-Salem Journal and The Star-News of Wilmington have taken notice of Steven P. Miller's new book on North Carolina native Billy Graham. In an editorial for The Winston-Salem Journal,… READ MORE
Library Journal on Black Walden
05/05/2009
Library Journal has taken notice of Elise Lemire's new book, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. Here's a quote from the review in their May 1 issue…. READ MORE
