January 27, 2006

Presses Pick Up Titles That Smithsonian Press Took Out of Print

By DAVID GLENN

SMITHSONIAN LIMBO: In October 2002, the Smithsonian Institution Press released Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840-1900, by Gregory M. Pfitzer, now a professor of American studies at Skidmore College. Mr. Pfitzer was initially pleased with the way the press treated his book, which explores how 19th-century mass-market paintings and lithographs expressed ideas about America's early colonial history.

But things soon went sour. Mr. Pfitzer's book

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