Category: American Studies

What is the Flag?

In this original blog post, Arnaldo Testi, author of Capture the Flag: The Stars and Stripes in American History, discusses four very different encounters with the Stars and Stripes. In… READ MORE

Live Better in New Jersey

That’s the news from the American Human Development Project as reported by the Wall Street Journal. NYU Press will be publishing the 2010-2011 version of AHDP’s report, Measure of America,… READ MORE

Favorite Poem: Arnaldo Testi

Don’t ask me for words by Eugenio Montale (Genoa, 1896 – Milan, 1981; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1975) Don’t ask me for words that might define our formless soul, publish… READ MORE