Love and Baseball
02/14/2008
This Valentine’s Day, the hearts of devoted Phillies fans are hovering somewhere over Clearwater, Florida, where spring training begins for Phils pitchers and catchers. The local blog, High Cheese reports… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
Blum’s Tours Campuses to Discuss Du Bois
02/06/2008
This month, Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, will visit campuses across the country to discuss the legacy of the renown scholar and activist…. READ MORE
Sacks Guides NYT through Historic San Juan Hill
02/05/2008
Marcy Sacks, author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I, guides New York Times reporter John Strausbaugh through the Manhattan’s San Juan Hill… READ MORE
Fea’s Presbyterians in Love
01/23/2008
In the January issue of Commonplace, John Fea explores a little known side of Philip Vickers Fithian, the early American diarist and Presbyterian minister perhaps best known for his descriptions… READ MORE
Jackson’s Book Part of new MLK “Scholarly Synthesis”
01/17/2008
As schools and other cultural institutions prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with service, ceremony, and perhaps a little sleeping in, "The Prophet Reconsidered," a book review in… READ MORE
An Election Year Quote from Ben Franklin
In honor of Benjamin Franklin on his birthday, here’s a quote from his song "Fair Venus Calls." In Power is Pleasure, no Tongue can tell.By Crouds tho’ you’re teased, your… READ MORE
Fanny Kemble Makes Foreword’s Outstanding List
01/10/2008
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life is number 6 in Foreword magazine’s annual list of Outstanding University Press Books. Critic Peter Skinner writes: David skillfully analyzes Kemble’s love-hate relationship… READ MORE
Schoolcraft Overshadowed No Longer
01/03/2008
The most recent volume of The Michigan Historical Review praises Robert Dale Parker, editor of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,… READ MORE
Race and the Cherokee Nation–Now Available
12/21/2007
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century Fay A. Yarbrough 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Peoples of the River Valleys–Now in Paperback
Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians Amy C. Schutt 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3993-5 | $45.00… READ MORE
