"One of my first memories is of being read aloud to. My mother would prop me in a corner of the sofa and read to me before I was old enough to sit up by myself. But my parents were determined that I not learn to read before I went to school; they were af...

Robin McKinley achieved renown in the field of children's literature with her first novel, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978), and her reputation has continued to grow. Her fourth book, The Hero and the Crown (1984), won the...

Robin McKinley has been described by her friends Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold in Horn Book as a "person who approaches every instant and event with such boisterousness, energy, and vehemence that even the most mundane aspects of her life are infus...

Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians. By Heather A. Lapham. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xiv ], 184. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-81735276-9; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1493-4.) Heather A. Lapham's Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status,...

In recent years, early American historians have profited from a new crop of works devoted to exploring Indian-colonist relations along the periphery of British America. Notable recent contributions include Richard White's The Middle Ground (1991), Gregory Dowd's A Spirited Resistance (1992), and Daniel...

You have a world atlas on your desk. With a few mouse clicks, you can print out door-to-door directions through the Internet. Then there's the GPS device mounted on your car's windshield.With Americans possessing more tools than ever to help get them where they want...