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Category: American History & Studies

Now in Paperback–Crossovers

10/23/2006

Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture John Szwed 296 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1972-4 | $26.50 | £17.50 "In this collection of thirty-one… READ MORE

Now Available–This Is Our Music

10/20/2006

This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture Iain Anderson 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 23 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3980-6 | $39.95 |… READ MORE

Echoes of Very Distant Wars

10/12/2006

Echoes of Very Distant Wars, an essay by Ann M. Little, Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University and author of Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial… READ MORE

Now Available–Civic Engagement

10/06/2006

Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City John Louis Recchiuti 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3957-1 | $59.95… READ MORE

Now Available–Before Harlem

09/22/2006

Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I Marcy S. Sacks 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3961-X… READ MORE

CT Landmarks “Hung Out to Dry?”

09/20/2006

“The curing shed of the New England tobacco fields is the area’s most characteristic architectural form, and it is fast vanishing from the agricultural landscape,” writes James F. O’Gorman in the September 17th Hartford Courant.
“Hung out to Dry,” his commentary on the historic value of Connecticut’s curing sheds and strategies to preserve these structures, is available at courant.com.