First Lady of Letters–Now Available
03/03/2009
First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence Sheila L. Skemp 512 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 10 illus. Cloth 2009 |… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
The Ties That Buy–Now Available
03/02/2009
The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4144-0 | $39.95 | £26.00… READ MORE
The Way of Improvement Leads Home–Now in Paperback
02/27/2009
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America John Fea 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 illus. Cloth 2008 |… READ MORE
Maurice Jackson on The Kojo Nnamdi Show
02/23/2009
Tune in or log on to WAMU's The Kojo Nnamdi Show tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. to hear Maurice Jackson, author of Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father… READ MORE
Madison Avenue and the Color Line on Ad Age Staff List
A February 20 Adage.com article asked "What Is the Best Book Ever Written on Marketing or Media?" Here's Advertising Age staffer Ken Wheaton's answer: Madison Avenue and the Color Line,… READ MORE
Historiann and Co. Look at Bennett’s History Matters
02/13/2009
In preparation for Women's History Month, bloggers Historiann, Notorious Ph.D., Tenured Radical, and Another Damned Medievalist at Blogenspiel are joining forces to discuss Judith M. Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and… READ MORE
Public Housing That Worked– Now in Paperback
02/11/2009
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century Nicholas Dagen Bloom 368 pages | 6 x 9 | 33 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4077-1 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Beyond the Architect’s Eye– Now Available
02/10/2009
Beyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment Mary N. Woods 368 pages | 7 x 10 | 150 duotone, 21 color illus. Cloth Feb 2009 | ISBN… READ MORE
Maurice Jackson Seen and Heard at the Library Company of Philadelphia
02/06/2009
Maurice Jackson, author of Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism, spoke at the Library Company of Philadelphia yesterday evening. Jackson discussed how eighteenth-century Philadelphian… READ MORE
Bloom’s First Batch of NYC Housing Authority Answers
02/05/2009
Yesterday, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, served up his first batch of answers to The New York Times City Room… READ MORE
