06/18/2012
Today is Garter Day, one of the best opportunities to see Great Britain's aristocracy in full plumage. To mark the occasion, the Daily Beast correspondent Tom Sykes invited Stephanie Trigg,… READ MORE
Barring a miraculous rebirth of neighborhood real estate markets, city officials should think twice before creating more vacant lots.
06/08/2012
"Like Avogadro's number or the rules of subjunctive verbs, the War of 1812 is one of those things that you learned about in school and promptly forgot without major consequence,"… READ MORE
06/05/2012
Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth. Foreword by Lebbeus Woods 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN… READ MORE
05/29/2012
North Carolina's recent constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and the White House's response to that measure continue to reverberate through personal and public conversations across the nation. In this post,… READ MORE
05/01/2012
In the May Penn Press podcast, Lehigh University political scientist Saladin M. Ambar, author of How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency, discusses the role that governorship played in shaping… READ MORE
04/18/2012
In many parts of the United States, seafood consisted of canned salmon and canned tuna fish. Processing seafood by freezing was in its infancy. Fresh fish was sold in grocery stores and restaurants mainly in coastal cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Today, technological advances, such as jet airplanes and new freezing techniques, have made it possible for processors and distributors to offer people throughout the United States and in other nations a wide variety of seafood. Fresh, wild salmon from Alaska nestle next to frozen, farm-raised tilapia from China in grocers’ counters across America.
My book explains how this transformation occurred. To do so, I explore the interactions among fishers, executives of seafood-processing firms, governmental officials, scientists, and environmentalists in formulating policies that created the food chains connecting boats to consumers.
04/16/2012
Hence, to revolutionize public education, which is largely under state and local jurisdiction, reformers must get state and local governments to adopt their agenda as basic policy; they must counter the teachers’ unions’ political clout. To this end, ed reformers are shifting major resources—staff and money—into state and local campaigns for candidates and legislation.
04/12/2012
In this guest blog post, historian Molly Michelmore considers why the Internal Revenue Code came to be so baffling. Her answers may surprise you.
04/03/2012
Beyond the Resource Curse Edited by Brenda Shaffer and Taleh Ziyadov 512 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4400-7 | $69.95 | £45.50 "Beyond the Resource Curse… READ MORE
