Watch Those Footsteps on the Capital Sidewalks
On the streets of Washington, DC these days, it’s easy to walk right past addresses that are not famous but from which great things –… Read More »Watch Those Footsteps on the Capital Sidewalks
John Cheever
Decoding Mad Men with Cheever
With Ossining, New York as the locale of Don Draper’s broken home in the TV series Mad Men, notes the New York Times, “If ‘Mad… Read More »Decoding Mad Men with Cheever
WPA Guides and Cities of the Imagination – Part 1
The WPA guides track fine-grained details of 1930s America, from the call signals of long lost radio stations to stories of tenement families. But what… Read More »WPA Guides and Cities of the Imagination – Part 1
Jobs and the WPA Guide to Florida
The WPA Guide to Florida, which marks its 70th anniversary this week, is unlike other travel guides, as I wrote in yesterday’s Florida Times-Union. The… Read More »Jobs and the WPA Guide to Florida
1930s culture coming to a screen near you…
This Saturday the 26th I’ll be at the National Book Festival talking with historian Douglas Brinkley about the WPA writers and what they found in… Read More »1930s culture coming to a screen near you…
Seeing the Shadow City: Anniversary for the WPA Guide to New York City
Seventy years ago this week, the WPA Guide to New York City came out amid a campaign blitz of jingles and quiz games. In 1939,… Read More »Seeing the Shadow City: Anniversary for the WPA Guide to New York City