Science in America Format: Hardcover

From this unique collection of documents emerges a fresh, intimate, often striking picture of the life of science in the United States in the era when American investigators became central to scientific advances in many fields. Written in the course of the events described, these letters, memoranda, and other records—for the most part previously unpublished—convey personalities and issues with an immediacy hard to capture in conventional historical narratives.

Nathan Reingold is editor of the Joseph Henry Papers at the Smithsonian Institution. Among his books is Science in America: A Documentary History, 1900-1939, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Nathan Reingold is editor of the Joseph Henry Papers at the Smithsonian Institution. Ida H. Reingold is a mathematician who has authored numerous technical papers.