Participant Info
- First Name
- Lynda
- Last Name
- Yankaskas
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA Pennsylvania
- LyndaYankaskas@muhlenberg.edu
- Affiliation
- Muhlenberg College
- Website URL
- https://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/academics/history/facultystaff/lyndayankaskas/
- Keywords
- Libraries, book history, books, readers, reading, Philadelphia, Boston, civic culture, class, public space, early republic
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
“Crafting Respectability: The Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices’ Library of Boston.” In Mark Towsey and Kyle Roberts, eds., Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850. Brill, 2018.
“Origin Stories: The Boston Athenaeum, Transatlantic Literary Culture, and Regional Rivalry in the Early Republic.” The New England Quarterly 89:4 (Dec. 2016).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Book History, Libraries & Archives
