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Free at Last
At the end of Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave, Grimes’s statement that “I have learned to read and write pretty well” is proven by the 30,000 words preceding...
Free at Last
At the end of Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave, Grimes’s statement that “I have learned to read and write pretty well” is proven by the 30,000 words preceding...
Past Life
There’s an unbridgeable distance between a book about life and life itself. But the third edition of Life at Yale, a large alumni-produced pamphlet published in 1920 to “fairly” introduce...
Past Life
There’s an unbridgeable distance between a book about life and life itself. But the third edition of Life at Yale, a large alumni-produced pamphlet published in 1920 to “fairly” introduce...
Sinking Ships
War is hell, but as far as popular memory is concerned, the War of 1812, provoked by Britain and declared by America, is something worse: a bad story. The setup...
Sinking Ships
War is hell, but as far as popular memory is concerned, the War of 1812, provoked by Britain and declared by America, is something worse: a bad story. The setup...
Novel Experience
We’re celebrating 2024 by revisiting some of the year’s most memorable articles, each plucked from one of the four seasons. Next up? Fall, with this October 1 essay that reopens...
Novel Experience
We’re celebrating 2024 by revisiting some of the year’s most memorable articles, each plucked from one of the four seasons. Next up? Fall, with this October 1 essay that reopens...
Old Flame
“Don’t burn the candle at both ends,” people started telling each other in the 1700s. Back then, it was a more literal warning not to squander precious resources, conceived at...
Old Flame
“Don’t burn the candle at both ends,” people started telling each other in the 1700s. Back then, it was a more literal warning not to squander precious resources, conceived at...
With a Vengeance
It takes serious anger to write an epic poem about how much you dislike a place. For Samuel Woodworth, heartbreak and cruel gossip were enough to fuel 600 lines named...
With a Vengeance
It takes serious anger to write an epic poem about how much you dislike a place. For Samuel Woodworth, heartbreak and cruel gossip were enough to fuel 600 lines named...