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Reading Malachi in Light of Ancient Persian Royal Messenger Texts from the Time of Xerxes
The academy has not been kind to Malachi. Indeed, some of the most influential and seminal studies on the book denigrate its style, message, and overall artistry. This negative assessment proves extensive in the history of scholarship. Furthermore, the studies demonstrating a more positive assessment of Malachi do so without offering serious ......
The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women
In August 1972, Newsweek proclaimed that “the person in Washington who has done the most for the women’s movement may be Richard Nixon.” Today, opinions of the Nixon administration are strongly colored by foreign policy successes and the Watergate debacle. Its accomplishments in advancing the role of women in government ......
The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women
Lee Stout is Librarian Emeritus at the Penn State University Libraries. His recent book Ice Cream U: The Story of the Nation’s Most Successful Collegiate Creamery (2009) is also distributed by Penn State Press.
Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn’s Treaty Tree. ......
Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America
A collection of essays of that trace the increasingly sophisticated taste of American collectors of Italian Renaissance masterpieces from the antebellum era, through the Gilded Age, to the later twentieth century.
In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., "other") to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of ......
An annotated translation from the German of a never-before published daily diary of a Jewish boy living in Dresden, Germany. It includes a section by the editor commenting on the diary and its historical significance.
Reconstructs and analyzes Argentina's modern history, from the era of mass immigration, to the years of Juan and Eva Perón, to the period of military dictatorship. New chapters cover the "Kirchner decade" (2003-2013) and the upheavals surrounding the country's 2001 default on its foreign ......
