In his 1902 novel The Leopard’s Spots, Thomas Dixon Jr. explores the racial problem that had plagued the South from the end of the Civil War up to the beginning of the 20th century. What to do with the newly freed Negro popultion is described by Dixon as the great “unsolved riddle,” as it remains …
(The traditional European folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm have influenced the popular imagination for centuries. One item from their collection, however, has not appeared in recent reprints or Disney film adaptations. “The Jew in the Bush” (also called “The Jew Among Thorns”) tells the story of a simple and kind worker who meets …