Authentic Mock Scrapple
04/10/2013
Blinder Panhaas is a great dish for the frugal cook to have in her repertoire: the recipe is essentially a means to turn leftover cooking stock and some basic kitchen staples into a tasty accompaniment
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Medieval Monday: Pope Gregory VIII, the Audita tremendi, and the Third Crusade
04/08/2013
This excerpt from Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291, edited by Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell, features… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: The Jet Sex, Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture, Stuyvesant Bound, and Owning William Shakespeare
04/05/2013
Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture Edited by Gary Hatfield and Holly Pittman 496 pages | 6 x 9 | 27 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-1-934536-49-0 | $69.95 |… READ MORE
Why Sing a Poem? Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “A Corn Song” in J19
04/01/2013
A new article on the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s musical setting of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “A Corn Song” appears in the inaugural issue of J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Here,… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books
03/29/2013
Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 Edited by Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell 568 pages | 6… READ MORE
Getting a Little Color: Catherine Cocks and the Truth about Tanning
03/28/2013
In Tropical Whites, I argue that pale-skinned people’s tanning constituted a kind of “brownface,” a playful experiment in becoming nonwhite that embodied a renovated relationship between civilization and nature.
A Corn Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar
03/27/2013
A Corn Song (by Paul Laurence Dunbar) On the wide verandah white,In the purple failing light Sits the master while the sun is lowly burning;And his dreamy thoughts are drown’dIn… READ MORE
Get Hep Tonight at the Free Library with Zoot Suit Author Kathy Peiss
03/20/2013
Kathy Peiss, Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme StyleThe University of Pennsylvania History Department presents The Zoot Suit in American CultureWednesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.The Free Library of… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: “Why We Argue About the Way We Read,” a free article from The Eighteenth Century
03/18/2013
Paul's pick for March is "Why We Argue About the Way We Read" by Lisa A. Freeman at the University of Illinois Chicago. The article appears in Spring 2013 issue… READ MORE
Pennsylvania Dutch Pies for Pi Day
03/14/2013
Happy Pi Day! We put an historical Pennsylvania Dutch twist on the mathematical celebration of 3/14 by eating shoofly pie and sharing a recipe for apple Schnitz pie, two the… READ MORE
