Category: American History & Studies

Dangerous to Know–Now Available

Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic Susan Branson 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth Aug 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4088-7 | $39.95… READ MORE

Reparations to Africa — Now Available

Reparations to Africa Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann. With Anthony P. Lombardo 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4101-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania… READ MORE

Public Culture — Now Available

Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4081-8 |… READ MORE

Chambers’s Book is Choice Editors’s Pick

Choice Reviews Online includes Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry by Jason Chambers among its Editors’s Picks for July, calling the book  "a cogent… READ MORE

Inexpressible Privacy–Now in Paperback

Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature Milette Shamir 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3906-5 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper… READ MORE

Bloom’s Public Housing Commentary

"Public housing that works is a legacy that New York would be foolish to squander," argues Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth… READ MORE

Blum Interview on Religion Dispatches

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet author Edward J. Blum recently discussed the inspiration for his research with the online daily magazine Religion Dispatches. Here’s an excerpt from the… READ MORE