Category: American History & Studies

Brides, Inc.–Now in Paperback

Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition Vicki Howard 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 50 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3945-4 | $34.95 | £23.00 Paper… READ MORE

Formative Acts–Now in Paperback

Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making Edited by Stephen Skowronek and Matthew Glassman 456 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4012-2 | $65.00… READ MORE

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