Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as ...
Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Morgan City, Louisiana The book for the month of July is The American Monument by Lee Friedlander. Friedlander studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and in 1960 was ...
The Idyls of Strawberry Bank. Poems by Daniel Augustus Drown is a small book of victorian poems, published in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and printed for the author in 1873. Poetry of the Victorian era is often seen as a bridge ...
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is the Featured Book for May. This book from our Hagan Collection is a collection of related stories about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. While apparently based on some ...
Ladhope Leaves: A Spring Garland for 1887 is the Featured Book for April 2010. A charming book with decorated covers, untrimmed edges and a bright gilt top edge. Within, readers will find verse by John Ruskin, Andrew Lang, J.B. Selkirk, ...
This “profusely illustrated” decorative book takes the reader through the Boston of 1878. The book begins with a sketch of Boston’s history proudly proclaiming that “no city in the United States has a more interesting history than Boston.” Then, it ...
Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art from the Allan Rogg Collection is the Featured Book for February. Compiled, edited and curated by Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Associate Professor of African-American and African Dispora Studies, this book draws ...
Sylvia’s Farm: The Journal of an Improbable Shephard by Sylvia Jorrin is a collection of essays from a woman who bought 85 acres of land and a house with more than 25 rooms who had the intention of serving afternoon ...
Christmas Eve or the Duel in the Snow: An Original Domestic Drama in Three Acts by Edward Fitzball is a Victorian play published in London and first produced at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on March 12th, 1860. To view ...
Sweet it is to see the sun Shining on Thanksgiving Day, Sweet it is to see the snow Fall as if it came to stay; Sweet is everything that comes, For all makes cheer, Thanksgiving Day. ~ exerpt from “Every ...