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Author Ruth E. Iskin discusses her new book "Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York," how she became interested in the iconic artist, and what remains timely about Cassatt's work.

The first attempt to understand medieval emotional responses to buildings like Notre-Dame built across the whole of Western Europe.

I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands and livelihoods slip away as settlers came to the territory in search of resources.

JSAH has removed the paywall from its current September 2024 issue in conjunction with the Society of Architectural Historians 2024 Virtual conference.

By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC PressWhoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many thousands o

The first Herman Miller Action Office II installation, at JFN Associates, Chicago, 1969 (photo: Herman Miller)The rise of the knowledge economy was one of the key developments of the 20th century. Buildings for white-collar work have transformed the heart of every major city—and their role conti

The 77th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians is being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from April 17-21, 2024. In light of the conference's location, we have temporarily removed the paywall from a selection of articles and reviews from the Journal of the Society of Architectu

Alice Y. Tseng, JSAH Editor, 2024-25Alice Y. Tseng assumed the Editor-in-Chief position of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) in January 2024, after serving as the Associate Editor for the journal for the past two years and following the completion of David Karmon's ed

By Brooke Belisle, author of Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to ComputationRecent headlines are announcing the end of photography, as AI changes what counts as a photograph or makes it impossible to judge. The New York Times has published multiple, interactive articles prompting reader

Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of