Stir It Up–Now Available
06/19/2008
Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture Megan J. Elias 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4079-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 Stir… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
History Matters Book Forum in the Journal of Women’s History
06/18/2008
Provocative was a popular word among the four historians who participated in a Journal of Women’s History book forum on Judith M. Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of… READ MORE
Blum Repeats Du Bois Prayer
06/04/2008
In a timely post to the Religion in American History blog, W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet author Edward J. Blum quotes the 20th century African American activist in… READ MORE
In Darkest Alaska–Now in Paperback
In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage Robert Campbell 360 pages | 6 x 9 | 39 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4021-4 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
St. Louis and the Picture of Dorian Gray
05/30/2008
Here’s one local reaction to Colin Gordon’s Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City. "Mr. Gordon literally gives us a bird’s eye view of the worst… READ MORE
Public Housing That Worked–Now Available
05/21/2008
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
LRB Reviews Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble
". . .few subjects can have had more incarnations than Kemble," writes Ruth Bernard Yeazell in the latest issue of London Review of Books. "and Deirdre David’s new biography is… READ MORE
Art Work–Now Available
05/12/2008
Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York April F. Masten 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 55 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4071-9 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
Podcast Interview with Colin Gordon
05/09/2008
Marshall Poe interviewed Colin Gordon, author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City, for the New Books in History blog. An audio file of this… READ MORE
Negro League Baseball–Now in Paperback
05/01/2008
Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution Neil Lanctot 512 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 31 illus. Cloth 2004 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3807-5 |… READ MORE
