Celebrating Walt Whitman
An excerpt from Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War.
An excerpt from Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War.
Oxford University Press staff share their favorite books.
Based on The Atlantic’s Top 100 Most Influential Americans of All Time list, we look at George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Ed Gaustad weighs in on the Atlantic’s top 100 most influential Americans.
John Mullan, author of How Novels Work looks at the rise of literary criticism among the masses.
Our favorite books.
From the Civil War to James Bond.
The Oxford Companion to Wine helps us learn about ice wine and Icewine.
Read the pie entry from the Oxford Companion To Food.
An excerpt which looks at the partition of Palestine.
Nicole Rafter’s monthly column examines the film, A History of Violence.
An excerpt from the Encylopedia of Popular Music’s Aimee Mann entry.
Amid all the stuffing, turkey, and pumpkin pie it’s useful to reflect for a moment on precisely what we celebrate on Thanksgiving Day. Every American knows the story of the First Thanksgiving: seeking religious freedom, the Pilgrims established a colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Native Wampanoag taught them how to plant corn and hunt. When the crops were harvested, the Pilgrims celebrated the First Thanksgiving by gobbling up turkeys, saucing cranberries, mashing corn, and squashing pumpkins to make pies.
A look at the Mos Def entry in the EPM.
Sex Crime Films, a response.
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