One of the projects of the Works Progress Administration was to assign several writers and photographers to document how and what Americans were eating in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. However, the WPA program was ended before the material that had been created could be published. Some of this material has been lost, but Read More
Month: November 2025
After the Revolution, by Joseph J Ellis
The subtitle of this book is “Profiles in Early American Culture”. Ellis looks at four men who were prominent in the early days of America, just after the revolution. These were not necessarily typical Americans, however. Each were prominent, and well known at that time, in a different area of arts or letters. Only one Read More