Overview :New Orleans occupies a singular position within American life. Drawing deeply from Old World traditions and New World possibilities, the por... Read More
Overview :As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countl... Read More
Overview :Mark Twain's visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstre... Read More
Overview :Santa Claus appears throughout popular culture, captivating the imaginations and shaping the wishes of millions of children across the world... Read More
Overview :In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly Am... Read More
Overview :"The ideal of happiness of many American children is to lose themselves in A Wonder-Book." Henry JamesIn 1851, many decades before Percy Jac... Read More