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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle By Jon Meacham Cover Image
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A People's History of the United States By Howard Zinn Cover Image
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass, Ira Dworkin (Editor), Ira Dworkin (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Frederick Douglass, Ira Dworkin (Editor), Ira Dworkin (Introduction by)
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family By Annette Gordon-Reed Cover Image
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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 By Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney Cover Image
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights By Dorothy Wickenden Cover Image
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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America By Megan Kate Nelson Cover Image
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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Civil War America) By Jeffry D. Wert Cover Image
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The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane Cover Image
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction By Kate Masur Cover Image
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War By S. C. Gwynne Cover Image
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Rites Of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age By Modris Eksteins, Professor Cover Image
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New Hope for American Art

                                               New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. 

In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as:

  • Daniel Garber
  • Edward Redfield
  • George Sotter
  • Arthur Meltzer
  • Robert Spencer
  • William Langson Lathrop
  • Kenneth Nunamaker
  • John Folinsbee
  • Henry Snell
  • William F. Taylor
  • Fern Coppedge
  • M. Elizabeth Price
  • Clarence Johnson
  • S. George Phillips
  • Rae Sloan Bredin
  • Walter Baum
  • Walter Schofield
  • Morgan Colt
  • Charles Rosen
  • Joseph Meierhans
  • Charles F. Ramsey
  • Louis Stone
  • Charles Evans
  • Josef Zenk

New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting. A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. The book offers valuable tips on how to avoid common mistakes often experienced by new collectors drawn from the author's personal experiences as a collector and fine art dealer.