On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer's patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain. The tissue grows porous. It is a sieve through which the past slips.As her mother loses her grasp on their shared history, Elizabeth Kadetsky sifts through boxes of the snapshots, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and notebooks that remain, hoping ......
Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market ......
From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America's most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light. Paris, with its extraordinary liberties of expression, became a special place for interrogating the margins of sexual culture and literary censorship, and a wide variety of English ......
Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and community Transcendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers-including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret ......
Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and community Transcendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers-including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret ......
The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politics In 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected African American attorney general of Massachusetts. His victory was striking not only because Massachusetts was an overwhelmingly white state ......
The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politics In 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected African American attorney general of Massachusetts. His victory was striking not only because Massachusetts was an overwhelmingly white state ......
American Indians, Religion, and Shifting Landscapes of Memory
Tracing how shuttered mission schools became contested commemorative landscapes During the Early Republic and Jacksonian eras, Euro-American colonists and Native nations in the South and Old Northwest established mission schools intended to Christianize Indigenous peoples. In Lost Missions, Sean T. Jacobson recovers the histories and afterlives ......
American Indians, Religion, and Shifting Landscapes of Memory
Tracing how shuttered mission schools became contested commemorative landscapes During the Early Republic and Jacksonian eras, Euro-American colonists and Native nations in the South and Old Northwest established mission schools intended to Christianize Indigenous peoples. In Lost Missions, Sean T. Jacobson recovers the histories and afterlives ......
