The objective of this study was to compare substrate solution nitrogen (N) availability, N immobilization, and nutrient leaching in a pine tree substrate (PTS), peatlite (PL), and aged pine bark (PB) over time under greenhouse conditions. Pine tree substrate was produced from loblolly pine logs (Pinus taeda L.) that were chipped and hammer-milled to a desired particle size. Substrates used in t...

THISARTICLE IDENTIFIES SOME OF THE SALIENT issues involved when folktales cross cultural boundaries aboard the vehicle of children’s books, ajourneywith many bumps in the road. Beyond the need to acknowledge the story’s source, especially if it is outside the adaptor’s own culture, is the larger question ofwho owns stories, specifically folktales, but also “story” in a broader sense as folktale...

Beginning with an overview of the debate over American women writers and the academic canon, this essay inventories four clusters of American women writers—domestic novelists, regionalists, modernists, and writers of diverse ethnicities—within a representative sampling of small-town public libraries across the Midwest from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The survey reveals som...