America, New York City, PeopleOctober 14, 2009<December 14, 2021 Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: Ellis Island by Evangeline Holland Gilded Age America saw not only a boom in millionaires, but a boom in immigration. During this era, approximately 10 million immigrants entered the…
Food, Men, WomenOctober 7, 2009<December 12, 2013 Of Cooking & Gender by Evangeline Holland After reading The New York Magazine’s list of the Top 20 Chef Empires, and perusing a few culinary books I’d borrowed from the library,…
ResearchOctober 4, 2009<October 9, 2009 Featured Book: Victorians and Edwardians at Work by Evangeline Holland The lives of the working classes are largely ignored in today’s fiction, and if featured at all, rarely is there a full and varied…