In the United States today, we are celebrating a relatively new federal holiday: Juneteenth. Meant to mark the emancipation of US slaves, Juneteenth celebrations extend…
This newspaper clip reflects a horrific story about the only anti-Semitic blood libel to occur in American history. Blood libels against Jews began in the…
This is John Tenniel’s famous 1871 illustration of the poem “Jabberwocky,” the most famous nonsense poem in the English language. Linguists have long remarked upon…