Americans encounter their homes in ways comforting and haunting: as an imagined refuge or a place of mastery and domination, a destination or a place to escape.

This unique book combines a brief, comprehensive history of women in the American newspaper business over the last one hundred years with a sharp assessment of

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of

Asserts that America is straying from its democratic ideals and faltering in a rapidly globalized world community, and challenges policies that are based on a p

Discusses the history of America's Founding Fathers through their words and actions but also through the architectural treasures of the homes they built while t