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On John Brown and the Rise of the Radical Republican Abolitionists

On John Brown and the Rise of the Radical Republican Abolitionists

LeeAnna Keith Recounts the Politics and Intrigue of the Harpers Ferry Raid

By LeeAnna Keith | January 16, 2020

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

By John F. Callahan | January 16, 2020

On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

Nicholas Shaxson on New Books by Nicholas Lemann, Binyamin Appelbaum, and More

By Nicholas Shaxson | January 15, 2020

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance<br> 'Books of Secrets'

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance
'Books of Secrets'

Meghan Racklin on the History and Alchemy of Self-Care

By Meghan Racklin | January 15, 2020

Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

Jessica Andrews on Seeing Herself in the Writing of Adrienne Rich, Jeanette Winterson, Audre Lorde and More

By Jessica Andrews | January 15, 2020

Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John Frémont

Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John Frémont

The Author of Imperfect Union Answers a Few Questions from Lit Hub

By Literary Hub | January 14, 2020

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How Edith Wharton's Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

By Jennifer Egan | January 14, 2020

My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

By Martha Cooley | January 14, 2020

Life at the End of American Empire

By Richard Lachmann | January 14, 2020

J.M. Barrie's Handwritten Manuscript of <em>Peter Pan</em>

J.M. Barrie's Handwritten Manuscript of Peter Pan

Another Trip Back to Neverland

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2020

At Nancy Mitford's Grave, Where Romanticism Meets Reality

At Nancy Mitford's Grave, Where Romanticism Meets Reality

Laura Thompson on a Novelist's Dreams of Beauty and Death

By Laura Thompson | January 10, 2020

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

David Zucchino on the White Supremacist Plot to Take Over Wilmington, North Carolina

By David Zucchino | January 9, 2020

On the Antifascist Activists Who Fought in the Streets Long Before Antifa

On the Antifascist Activists Who Fought in the Streets Long Before Antifa

The Rich American History of Nazi-Punching

By Bill V. Mullen and Christopher Vials | January 9, 2020

The Renegade Ideas Behind the Rise of American Pragmatism

The Renegade Ideas Behind the Rise of American Pragmatism

William James, Charles Peirce, and the Questions That Roiled Them

By John Kaag and Douglas Anderson | January 9, 2020

The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

Candacy Taylor Plots the Uncertain Journeys Along Route 66

By Candacy Taylor | January 8, 2020

Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

The Author of Ghost Wall in Conversation with Reading Women's Kendra Winchester

By Reading Women | January 8, 2020

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