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Read a (Love) Letter From Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Read a (Love) Letter From Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne

On the anniversary of the publication of The Scarlet Letter

By Emily Temple | March 16, 2017

The Doctor Who Made Addicts of the Nazis

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On Methamphetamine Use in the Third Reich

By Norman Ohler | March 7, 2017

A History of Violence: Walking the Blood-Soaked Shores of Spirit Lake

A History of Violence: Walking the Blood-Soaked Shores of Spirit Lake

Rethinking an Early-American Captivity Narrative

By Katie Prout | March 1, 2017

A Real-Life Fitzgerald Hero, Too True for the Jazz Age

A Real-Life Fitzgerald Hero, Too True for the Jazz Age

On Hobey Baker, and the Beginning of the American Century

By Beatriz Williams | January 26, 2017

Some Things You May Not Have Known About Edith Wharton's Dog Obsession

Some Things You May Not Have Known About Edith Wharton's Dog Obsession

On the 155th anniversary of Wharton's birth, a tribute to her very favorite thing

By Emily Temple | January 24, 2017

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son's Legacy

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son's Legacy

"M.L. had chosen to do was unquestionably right."

By The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. | January 16, 2017

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The Riddle of the Vagina, and Other Victorian Attempts to Understand Women

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