homes and haunts

Discusses Edgar Degas's 1872 trip to post-Civil War New Orleans to meet his mother's family, suggesting that the visit elicited some of his finest paintings, and discusses the influence of some local writers.

Presents the two-year diary of Ida B. Wells, an African-American woman who would later become a crusader in the fight against lynching, providing a personal account of her social and political coming-of-age in Memphis in 1885-86.

Author and illustrator Tomie dePaola chronicles his life at the ages of seven and eight, in 1942-43 Connecticut, describing in particular his relationship with his cousin Blackie, who leaves to fight the Nazis overseas as a bomber gunner.

Children's author and illustrator Tomie dePaola shares special memories of fifteen Christmases he has celebrated over the course of his life, beginning in the 1930s when he was three years old.

Annotated edition of Thoreau's journal, expressing his philosophy of life and observations of nature, drawn from his solitary sojourn of two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

The author describes the joys and oddities of life in Provence, where he and his wife undertook the task of restoring and living in a two-centuries old stone farmhouse in the French countryside.

Author Meredith Hall reflects on her life, discussing how she was treated by her parents and community after becoming pregnant at the age of sixteen, the forced adoption of her son, her experiences wandering the Middle East, and her journey back to the United States where she fell in love, had two children, and was reunited with her firstborn.

Presents the author's first-hand account of traveling in Europe--London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid--between the years 1946-1947.

Describes daily life in Elizabethan London, and focuses on rivers, main streets, buildings, gardens, foreigners, clothes, food, drink, sex, marriage, education, entertainment, crime, punishment, the poor, and religion.