

Literature and Poetry
Celebrating a Decade of Words and Wonder; A Rolling Exhibition to the Heartland
If you missed or couldn't attend the National Book Festival this weekend or hadn't watched it on C-Span2 (Booktv.org), there are sources for author's interviews, a kids and teacher's guide, and author's podcasts. "Gateway to Knowledge" is expected to visit up to 60 sites in states across the Midwest and South over the next year. more »
CutureWatch, Review of The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work of Phyllis Bottome
It's hard to believe after reading this detailed, sympathetic story that its subject seems to be hardly known today. She was famous and highly esteemed, especially in the United States, as a novelist before her success reached England. more »
The Most Dangerous Woman in America, a Review of Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
Her fame grew not just because she was a very effective woman in a man’s world but because of her creative use of street theater and of womanhood itself. Her work made her an ardent opponent of child labor, but not a supporter of woman suffrage, which she saw as a distraction from class struggle. more »
The Folger Library's Digital Image Collection and Shop
A true relation of a most desperate murder, committed upon the body of Sir John Tindall Knight, one of the maisters of the Chancery; who with a pistoll charged with 3. bullets, was slaine going into his chamber within Lincolnes-Inne. more »