In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how early Americans debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. She argues that early advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.

Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge explains why, at the height of his powers, the American Revolution’s most effective propagandist abandoned politics to pursue cutting-edge architectural technology. In iron bridges, Paine believed he had a solution to the regional political divisions threatening the ideals of the revolution he had done so much to advance.