"By way of Italy, the Felice family puts down new roots in Southern California, settling into a grand Victorian home and buying a share of the gr

Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their huma

Using her own experience of exploring her family's immigration history, renowned educator Christine Sleeter has crafted a captivating story that

"Rafa's first flight, a late-night joy ride with his brother, changes their lives forever when the engine stops and the boys crash land, with "Te

In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical

"On her death bed, Laurel Richardson's sister whispers a deep family secret to her. Those whispered words send the famed sociologist and author o

In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-cent

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

On the day of the historic broadcast of The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles which triggered panic in many places it sounded so real, a family i

This study examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical