Academia

AcademiaThe Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to Americas relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fact, this mash up of Oxbridge quaintness with piles of new money gave riseat schools like Princeton and Vassar, Yale and Chicagoto unprecedented architectural fantasies that reshaped the image of the college campus. Today the ivy covered monuments of

In addition to creating sculptures

scientific studies

and the real-life experiences of hundreds of dads and moms

Inspired by late nineteenth-century crafts movements fathered by William Morris

he provides both a historical overview and case studies of noteworthy structures

In this entertaining volume Jeffrey Lyons has assembled a considerable compilation of anecdotes from his father’s best columns

social welfare

Though monastic living may seem unimaginable to us moderns

Established by an act of Congress in 1989

and new introductions—illustrated with Rockwell’s rarely seen preliminary sketches—examine this unique encounter between two legendary chroniclers of America

later evolved into clearly defined

Manhattan's local mountains