Category: American History

November 24, 2010

Andrew Smith Exposes the Truth About Thanksgiving

In the chapter “Giving Thanks” from his book Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Andrew Smith reveals that “the whole idea that the Pilgrims were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in America was, in fact...

November 16, 2010

Jonathan Soffer interviewed about Ed Koch by the New York Press

In a just-published interview with the New York Press, Jonathan Soffer, author of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, weighs in on a variety of Koch-related topics, ranging from his distinctive and often abrasive personality and his...

November 8, 2010

Jeffrey Perry Interviewed by Laura Flanders on GRITTV

Jeffrey Perry’s biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 is now available in paperback. Here is an interview with Jeffrey Perry on Grittv.com with Laura Flanders.

November 1, 2010

Theodore C. Sorensen

October 21, 2010

Award Winner! Triumph of Order Wins the Kenneth Jackson Book Award

The Triumph Of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London, by Lisa Keller has been selected as a co-recipient of the Kenneth Jackson Book Award. Congratulations to Lisa Keller. For more on the book browse the book...

October 12, 2010

Award Winner! The African Diaspora, by Patrick Manning

Congratulations to Patrick Manning, whose book The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture was recently named the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award. Here’s what the judges of the book had to...

October 8, 2010

Interview with Jonathan Soffer, author of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

The following is an interview with Jonathan Soffer, author of  Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. For more on the book, browse the book via Google Preview. Q: What makes a great mayor? Does Koch qualify? Jonathan...

October 6, 2010

Video for Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

The following is a video for Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. For more on the book, you can browse the book using Google Preview or visit the site jonathansoffer.com

September 20, 2010

Jonathan Soffer on the Legacy of Ed Koch

Sam Roberts begins his New York Times review of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City by citing a decade-old survey of scholars, which ranked Koch as the 15th worst mayor in American history. Not too good. But...

September 2, 2010

Summer Reading from The Immanent Frame

The Immanent Frame, a blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere hosted on the Social Science Research Council’s site, recently asked some of its contributors what they had read and liked over the summer. It is a great list...

July 19, 2010

Interview with Gary Cross, author of Men to Boys (now available in paper!)

Gary Cross’s bestselling cultural history Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity is now available in paperback. Here is an interview we conducted with him when the book was first published. Question: Why did you write a book about...

July 1, 2010

Sam Roberts on John V. Lindsay as "America's Mayor"

When we were deciding on the title for our book on John Lindsay, co-published with the Museum of the City of New York, we were concerned that the title America’s Mayor, might cause some confusion. After all, many now think...