Michael McCulloch is Associate Professor of Architecture and Master of Architecture Program Chair at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. This interview is based on his new book, Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early-Twentieth Century...
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The Author’s Corner with Travis McDonald
Travis McDonald is Director of Architectural Restoration at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. This interview is based on his new book, Poplar Forest: Thomas Jefferson’s Villa Retreat (University of Virginia Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Poplar Forest? TM:...
The Author’s Corner with Richard Haw
Richard Haw is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. This interview is based on his new book, Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling (Oxford University...
Five Great New York City Buildings
In a recent piece at The New York Times, Sam Roberts discusses five New York City buildings that “changed American history.” They are: Federal Hall The Marble Palace The 69th Regiment Armory Bank of the United States The Old Gym Building...
An Architectural Historian Weighs-In On Confederate Monuments
Back in the days when I was a post-doctoral fellow with the Lilly Fellow in Humanities and the Arts, I had a Valparaiso University office next to a young architectural historian named Louis Nelson. (Actually, we were also next-door neighbors on...
The First Shaker Village in the United States
Atlas Obscura is featuring some of the early American architecture of Watervliet, New York, the first Shaker village in the United States. Here is a taste of the accompanying piece: The millenarian Christian sect, fleeing persecution in England and isolating themselves from...
What Constitutes a Historical Document?
AHA Today, the blog of the American Historical Association, is featuring the work of several history graduate students who will be writing regular posts throughout the summer. I am thrilled to see that one of the students chosen to write...