stadium

What comes to mind when we think of stadiums in the United States of America. For most of us its entertainment, football games, Taylor Swift concerts, monster truck rallies, and rodeos. But as historian Frank Andre Guridy reveals in his book “The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play,” over the past 150 years they have been where people gather to wrestle over defining the soul of America.

On Wednesday, May 15, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger will talk with Oblong Book and Music's Dick Hermans about "Ballpark:…

The American sports stadium, for all its raucous glory, is an overlooked centerpiece -- a veritable temple -- of our national culture. A hallowed ground…