After a visit with his grandfather who has Alzheimer's disease, a ten-year-old boy realized how lucky he has been to know Pop and to share his stories.

Colorful characters once populated the Upper Mississippi River Valley swamps and floodplain forests. These are the river rats, hill folk, and swamp dogs whose s

Ask an old-timer what life was like in rural upstate New York during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and you will hear about the dances and bees th

Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundar