A Depression Era Recipe for Today’s Troubled Consumer
12/11/2008
Has the economic downturn and holiday shopping made you a little stressed out? In the following essay, Megan J. Elias, historian and author of Stir It Up: Home Economics in… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
America’s Waterfront Revival–Now Available
12/10/2008
America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment Peter Hendee Brown 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 54 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4122-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE
Bloom on Private Sector Methods in Public Housing
12/09/2008
In today's Gotham Gazette, Nicholas Dagen Bloom places calls for private sector methods and non-government revenue in public housing within the context of the New York City Housing Authority's overall… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia
12/03/2008
In the latest Penn Press podcast, historian and author Roger W. Moss and photographer Tom Crane discuss their collaboration on Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia, the final book in their architecture… READ MORE
Talking Points Memo on Mapping Decline, Gordon on StLMag.com
12/02/2008
Talking Points Memo Café blogger Kenneth Thomas calls Colin Gordon's Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City "an outstanding overview of the decline of America's cities."… READ MORE
The Country Seats of the United States–Now Available
11/21/2008
The Country Seats of the United States William Russell Birch Edited by Emily T. Cooperman 96 pages | 9 x 9 | 20 color, 19 b/w illus. Cloth Nov 2008… READ MORE
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3–Now Available
11/19/2008
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757 J. A. Leo Lemay 768 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 63 illus. Cloth Nov 2008… READ MORE
Bodies of Belief–Now Available
11/17/2008
Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America Janet Moore Lindman 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4114-3 | $39.95 | £26.00 A… READ MORE
U.S. Intellectual History Blog Reviews Black Philosopher, White Academy
11/11/2008
U.S. Intellectual History, a blog "dedicated to the maintenance and growth of the discipline of U.S. intellectual history," just posted a review of Bruce Kuklick's Black Philosopher, White Academy: The… READ MORE
Blum Sees Little “Sublime Mystery” in Obama Victory
11/06/2008
In "Neither Christ Nor Antichrist: A Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama," an essay for www.religiondispatches.com, historian Edward J. Blum warns against assigning too much sublime mystery to the… READ MORE
