Many people underestimate the importance of literature in education, instead opting to question the reason behind English ...

This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial ...

This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, ...

Between them, James and Whitman represent the distinction between “life conceived as a discipline” and “life conceived as an ...

“America today,” Wolfe wrote, “in a headlong rush of her own, may or may not truly need a literature worthy of her vastness. But American novelists, without any doubt, truly need, in this ...

This course provides a general introduction to American literature, where the main focus is on the nineteenth and the twentieth ... Attendance at 100% of the seminars and lectures is strongly ...

News of the UCLA course has spurred worry and criticism, but its professor is unfazed. “I feel more empowered by this process,” she says.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma education officials have proposed new academic standards for K-12 social studies that would include ...

Everette Hoagland, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts is interviewed at length in the Winter 2024 issue of ...

I don’t remember them reading books by Anzia Yezierska, Grace Paley or Cynthia Ozick, important writers often excluded in the ...

Sure, it's a family story they can chuckle about NOW. But Lisa Highfill wasn't laughing that December day almost 20 years ago ...

Skeptics did not believe that fiber optic FPV drones would be effective, even though they are immune to radio jamming. One ...