Ever wonder where the jolly father of Christmas came from?  Well I have! So I turned to Oxford Reference Online which led me to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Below is an excerpt about everyone’s favorite man in red. Happy...

Joanna Ng, Intern Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. In her new book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Zukin shows how a high demand for “authentic”...

By Anatoly Liberman It so happens that this year “December Gleanings” will fall on the 30th. Gleanings follow a harvest, and on this penultimate Wednesday of 2009 I would like to remember the highlights of the twelvemonth now almost gone. Those...

Anne Zaccardelli, Library and Online Sales Assistant Sally G. McMillen is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Department chair at Davidson College. Her newest book, now out in paperback, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s...

Joanna Ng, Intern William Faulkner was arguably the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century. In a new biography of the writer entitled Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner, Philip Weinstein narrates the events of...