06/25/2007
"[Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 by Jack D. Marietta and G. S. Rowe] is an enlightening read, the prose calmly literate and the organizational strategy a satisfying… READ MORE
06/22/2007
The Economist’s recent review of Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life begins: A friend of Fanny Kemble once apologised for declining a visit by explaining: “I could not see so many… READ MORE
06/22/2007
Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making Stephen Skowronek and Matthew Glassman, Editors 456 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4012-2 | $65.00 |… READ MORE
06/21/2007
This week’s featured creature from John H. Rappole’s Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic, the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii), will occasionally grace the mid-Atlantic coastal states between May and July. This bird… READ MORE
06/21/2007
Deirdre David, author of Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life, will be at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square to discuss the life of the unconventional Victorian actress… READ MORE
06/20/2007
Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future Pamela L. Geller and Miranda K. Stockett, Editors. Foreword by Louise Lamphere 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3940-9 |… READ MORE
06/20/2007
Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England Ann M. Little 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3965-2 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
06/20/2007
World Refugee Day is an event created by United Nations General Assembly resolution as an expression of solidarity with refugees and those who offer aid to them. While today, June… READ MORE
06/18/2007
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment gave its first Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing Book Award to Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the… READ MORE
06/15/2007
Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia Matthew J. Countryman 432 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 14 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3894-5 | $42.50… READ MORE
