Tom Christopher is a garden writer based in Connecticut. His most recent book, The Artful Garden, coauthored with landscape architect James van Sweden, will be published by Random House in spring 2011.
The area of Nook Farm was a hotbed for Stowe and her activist circle.
In her own time she was better known for her hydrangeas.
How Thomas Cole and Frederic Church made themselves at home in the Hudson River Valley.
H. F. du Pont's masterpiece of horticulture.
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
By Meredith Hindley
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta
