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Armed with a PhD in art history and her volunteer work at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Manhattan, Margaret Oppenheimer proves to be the perfect biographer for Eliza Jumel, a woman of the Early Republic who was born into grinding poverty yet died as one of the wealthiest women in New York. Margaret re…
To say that Tracey Goessel is a superfan of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks may still be understating it. She has lectured on Fairbanks widely and has published numerous articles on silent film history. She’s also a major collector of silent film ephemera—she owns, for example, the boots that…
October 21, 2015 • Behind the Scenes
Jerome Pohlen with Open Books volunteer Jennifer Brogan after the October 17 LGBT History Celebration presentation.
Jerome Pohlen is not only a Chicago Review Press acquisitions editor but a treasured author of ours
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It’s probably the most enduring image of the Spanish-American war, made famous by Frederic Remington’s painting Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback, leading the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment in a ragged run up a gentle slope, straight into the o…
When Michele Weldon’s husband walked out on her family after years of physical and emotional abuse, their three boys were just six, four and one. While Weldon was never able to fix or fully make up for her husband’s absence and brutal behavior, she spent years juggling single motherhood—and, l
August 25, 2015 • Behind the Scenes
“Behind the Scenes” offers readers a closer look at our authors’ work—how they researched, what they learned, and why they decided to share the subject with the world.
In our inaugural
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