The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. The essays in this volume-including some from original Port Huron contributors-probe the origins, content, and contemporary influence of the document that heralded the emergence of a vibrant New Left in American culture and politics.

In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon explores the continued transmission and appeal of apocryphal legends throughout the Middle Ages and demonstrates the significant impact that the Christ Child had in shaping the medieval religious imagination.