مؤلف: Steven Conn

‘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 visiting museums than ever before. There are now …

As America’s fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Con …

Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscap …

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of ‘innovative, ‘ ‘outside-the-box’ thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by mak …

Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a bac …

It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, a …

It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, a …

Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a bac …

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative, " "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they …

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 these dominated intellectual life in the United Stat …

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis. It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic …

A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project. ‘;An astonishing work. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Pictu …

For two and a half centuries, Philadelphians have been actively involved in archaeological research. In particular, three vital and venerable cultural institutions the American Philosophical Society …