Jean H. Baker

Jean H. Baker is Bennett-Harwood Professor of History Emerita at Goucher College. An eminent political historian and biographer, she is the author of Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion, Sisters:The Lives of America's Suffragists, James Buchanan, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, and, most recently, Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, published by Oxford University Press in January.

Trump’s Plan for Federal Buildings: Make America Old Again

FOOL’S GOLD

While superficially bowing to the past, Trump’s draft proposal for regulating federal architecture would undo two centuries of precedent going back to Benjamin Latrobe.

Jean H. Baker | Published Mar 22, 2020