Whether more of Africa’s burden of suffering results from the Western imperialism that destroyed the continent’s traditional governance systems, depleted resources, and destabilized tribal societies, or from age-old local... Read More

One poem in this collection, titled “The Dreams That Cried,” begins: “Things become other things, she said. / It’s what’s inside them, I guess.” The poem’s narrator ponders the strangeness of folklore and the stories that... Read More

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in early American cooking, fueled, ironically, by advances in technology. Online digital projects such as Feeding America at Michigan State University have made it possible for... Read More

The author arrived in Guatemala in 1991 a fresh-faced twenty-two-year-old, straight from life as a southern belle at the University of Alabama. She left at the end of her two-year Peace Corps stay as Elena (so nicknamed by the... Read More

“There were fifty tents made of tanned hides, very bright red and white in color and bell-shaped, with flaps and openings, and built as skillfully as those of Italy,” described Don Juan de Onate in his report on a Spanish expedition... Read More

Once a year in America, everyone is Irish. No other heritage is embraced so completely as the Irish are on St. Patrick’s Day; no other US ethnic group holds a nationwide annual celebration. The unique identity of the Irish in America... Read More

Egyptian cargo boats, ancient pyramids, and erupting volcanoes spring from the pages in these new pop-up books, part of the publisher’s “Explore It” series. The subjects of the books come to life and offer readers aged ten and up a... Read More

Egyptian cargo boats, ancient pyramids, and erupting volcanoes spring from the pages in these new pop-up books, part of the publisher’s “Explore It” series. The subjects of the books come to life and offer readers aged ten and up a... Read More