In the earliest days of professional baseball, onlookers regarded the game with some ambivalence. To capture the hearts of the public, baseball needed teams worth watching-and no team was a better am
An existential necessity in Western culture, universities have stood for 900 years with their institutional structures essentially unchanged. They still serve three basic functions: educating the facu
Hardy (history, Louisiana State U.) and Martin (English, Louisiana State U.) present an analysis of the themes of love, time, and memory in Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece Lolita. The authors focus pri
A college graduate at 16 and a founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Caldwell entered the Confederate Army as an artillery lieutenant. He fought at Shiloh, Port Hudson and other campaigns before being
