Author: Olivia Kalb

Each year, the Bucknell University Press takes on an undergraduate and a graduate intern, teaching them the ways of an academic press and offering a thorough examination of what it means to work in the publishing community. In his time…

Along with celebrating Black History Month, we make note of National Freedom Day, occurring on the first of February. In 1865 on February 1st, President Lincoln signed the 13th amendment, thereby outlawing slavery. While it didn’t become a national holiday…

Along with the other, more obvious, December holidays, this month we also celebrate Monkey Day! December 14th is the unofficial holiday reminding you to appreciate your fellow primates. Begun in 2000 by artist Casey Sorrow at Michigan State University, it…

The passion for reading starts young as you beg your mom or dad to buy that one or that one, oh, and the one over there! And every time you go to the library it feels like Christmas. That passion…

As the harvest period comes to an end and nature fades out to make room for the cold, barren ground of winter, the dead are celebrated. The Celtic festival of Samhain (SAH-in or SOW-in) occurs the night before November 1st,…

The month of October is more than apple-picking and Halloween costumes, it is a month of remembrance for the LGBT community and those who have fought, and continue to fight, for not just tolerance, but acceptance. Within every documented culture…