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"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are v...
Anti-urbanism in the Twentieth Century
It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. In this provocative and ...
Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as the...
Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t
"There's no such thing as rural America. Or, rather, as Steven Conn argues, "rural America" is a phrase that has been made to mean so many things that...
The Sad History of American Business Schools
Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ah...
Living with the Presence of the Past
As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. I...
Photographs and Stories that Changed the World
A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project. �...