Texas Studies in Literature and Language Archives

Whether worn as a lovelock or set in elaborate jewelry, the clipped-off hair of Kings and Queens outlived the monarchs themselves.

In the Victorian era, a different kind of ghostwriting became popular—largely because it allowed men to take all the credit.

Mother's Day began as one woman's quest to have a public observance of the anniversary of her own mother's passing.

Discover the real men Bruce Holsinger based his characters on.

While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This is no coincidence.

Fake news has plenty of precedents in the history of mass media, and particularly, in the history of American journalism.

Noah Webster, author of An American Dictionary of the English Language published in 1828, invented the word "immigration."

Abortion was first criminalized in the U.S. in the mid-19th century. A key argument was that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

The "deep state" idea of a shadowy parallel government, heard much in the news now, seems to be a concept borrowed from the Turkish experience.

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