Happy Halloween

This October, over on my nineteenth-century popular-culture blog American Scrapbook, I've been taking part in the annual Countdown to Halloween blogging marathon, looking for traces of Halloween in centuries past. I've distilled the essence of those investigations into a guest-post for the I. B. Tauris blog, available here. Enjoy, and Happy Halloween.

Guest Post: Mardi Gras in 1873

Waiting for the parade in 1873 - Edward King's The Great South

To commemorate Mardi Gras 2011, I've contributed a guest post to Rob Vellela's American Literary Blog about the implications, literary and otherwise, of Mardi Gras in 1873. You can read it here.