Recommended Reading: Burnett’s A Little Princess

The first page in the serialized “Sara Crewe: or What Happened at Miss Minchin’s,” which started in the Volume XV, Number II (December 1887) issue of St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine.

Editor's note: In the most recent issue of the Almanac, we asked members of the AAS community to give us their choice of recommended reading for "fiction published before 1900," a series we are continuing here on Past is Present. Last week we heard from AAS member Philip Gura. This week, Jackie Penny, AAS's image ...

Of Royal Interest

With all eyes in the media directed towards the new addition to the royal family, we’ve taken a look back to seek out evidence in the historical record of this subject’s proportional popularity. Unsurprisingly, American buzz on the most recent princes and princesses is anything but new. Indeed, everything about Queen Victoria’s life was reported in ...