04/18/2008
Steve Goddard selected Doug Rossinow’s Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America for today’s History Wire Book Alert, calling the history "an effective way to introduce today’s progressives to… READ MORE
04/16/2008
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City Colin Gordon 304 pages | 7 x 10 | 78 color illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4070-2 | $55.00… READ MORE
". . .[Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan] is an important addition to the literature on New York and the social world of leisure and entertainment that emerged between… READ MORE
04/15/2008
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, editor of Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers, received the Harold F. Williamson Prize from the Business History Conference. The award, which honors mid-career scholars who have… READ MORE
04/01/2008
A review of Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies, by William C. Kashatus, appeared in the March 30 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In this… READ MORE
03/31/2008
Today is opening day of the Philadelphia Phillies 2008 season. Time to announce the final results of the Almost A Dynasty Spring Training Trivia Challenge. The weekly trivia challenge winners… READ MORE
03/27/2008
Congratulations to Ron Rosen of Massachusetts, winner of the fourth and final round of the Almost a Dynasty Spring Training Trivia Challenge. For having his entry drawn from all of… READ MORE
03/21/2008
Congratulations to Rodney Reuter of Nebraska, winner of round three of the Almost a Dynasty Spring Training Trivia Challenge. For having his entry drawn from all of the correctly answered… READ MORE
03/20/2008
A recent Newsweek Web article opens with the following line: As Sen. Barack Obama deals with the fallout of controversial remarks by his pastor, a noted historian explains how the… READ MORE
03/18/2008
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 Feb 2008… READ MORE
