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  • Picturing Black History

    Photographs and Stories that Changed the World

    by Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Steven Conn ...
    **** Nominated for a NAACP Image Award **A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.**“Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“An astonishing work." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Picturing Black History uncovers ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lies of the Land

    Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't

    by Steven Conn ...
    A "piercing, unsentimental" history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis ( The New Yorker).It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Do Museums Still Need Objects?

    by Steven Conn ...
    Series series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
    "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 over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Americans Against the City

    Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century

    by Steven Conn ...
    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, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists called for ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Do Museums Still Need Objects?

    by Steven Conn ...
    Series series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
    "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 over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

    The Sad History of American Business Schools

    by Steven Conn ...
    Series series Histories of American Education
    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 making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have.In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn's Nothing Succeeds Like Failure ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Metropolitan Philadelphia

    Living with the Presence of the Past

    by Steven Conn ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    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 Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually every major political, economic, and social transformation of American life. Having once been an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Metropolitan Philadelphia

    Living with the Presence of the Past

    by Steven Conn ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    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 Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually every major political, economic, and social transformation of American life. Having once been an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • To Promote the General Welfare

    The Case for Big Government

    Edited by Steven Conn ...
    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 backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea Party rage and rhetoric is this simple fact: the federal government plays a central role in making ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Building the Nation

    Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape

    Edited by Steven Conn, Max Page ...
    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 Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it.Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Building the Nation

    Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape

    Edited by Steven Conn, Max Page ...
    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 Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it.Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Lies of the Land

    Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t

    by Steven Conn ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    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 decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook