Pamela Simpson

Twenty years after she mysteriously disappeared, shipping heiress Christina Fortune returns to gain control of the family business, but she must first convince her family of her identity.

An unexpected inheritance entangles Allie with a powerful family, and she soon finds herself taking sides in a bitter fight for the most spectacular property on the California coast.

In this study, Pamela H. Simpson examines the architectural materials that proliferated between 1870 and 1930. As Simpson shows in fascinating detail, rockface concrete blocks, pressed metal imitations of stone, linoleum "marble" and "parquet," and embossed wall coverings made available to the masse...

In this innovative study, Pamela H. Simpson examines the architectural materials that proliferated between 1870 and 1930. Produced by new technology, promoted by new forms of advertising, and eagerly adopted by a new middle class, these "cheap, quick, and easy" materials helped to transform building...

This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials – from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain – and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a romanticized narrative of the war. Several essays highlight the creativ...

Teddy Roosevelt’s head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks—with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs to the wor...

A blend of sci-fi and mystery, nicely told. "For private eye CJ Grant, it was one of those mornings. She'd barely survived one hell of an eathquake, when the handsome cowboy in the Steson and boots who saved herlife coolly informed her that he was Sam Hackett, a US Federal Marshal from 1882. Just wh...