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A Birthday Toast to Ben

‘Twas Honest old Noah first planted the VineAnd mended his morals by drinking its Wine.—from a drinking song by Benjamin Franklin Here’s to Benjamin Frankin in honor of his 301st… READ MORE

Smart and Insightful Among Other Things

Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period is "smart and insightful," says book critic Charles McGrath in his recent New York Times piece.

A Wonderful Mine

This month’s Library Journal calls Tropic of Venice by scholar and novelist Margaret Doody "a wonderful mine of information for anyone with an interest in Venice, its history and customs,… READ MORE

Lemay Among “The Year’s Best”

The New York Sun listed J.A. Leo Lemay’s The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747 as one of the best books of 2006. Reviewer Carl Rollyson says: Mr…. READ MORE

Bodies Politic–Now in Paperback

Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 John Wood Sweet 504 pages | 6 x 9 | 24 illus. Paper 2007 | ISBN 0-8122-1978-3 | $22.50 | £15.00… READ MORE