Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mark Twain on Mardi Gras
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(Mardi Gras in 1858, London Illustrated News , May 8 1858, via ) On March 8 1859, a 23 year old trainee steamboat pilot named Samuel Cle...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
"Pestilent stuff": The New York Tribune's Dime Novel War of 1884
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In March 1884, the New York Tribune took aim at what it considered to be one of the evils of the age: the dime novel. Frederick Whitta...
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Monday, January 14, 2013
"Shut in from all the world without": John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyll (1866)
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(Frontispiece to the first edition, available here ) There's a dusting of snow on the ground, which is excuse enough to return to th...
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Countdown to Christmas 2012: Year-End Round-Up
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( from The Book of Days ) So this Christmas countdown degenerated into a pair of advent book-ends. But hey, as Scrooge teaches us, it...
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Countdown to Christmas 2012: The Almanack of the Month
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" Holding out their little hands, with their hearts in them, to receive something! " Happy December. Consider this the beginni...
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