Averroës' writings on Aristotle shaped Western philosophy as we know it.
By Robert Pasnau
To understand her, you need to understand Eatonville—and vice versa.
By Anne Trubek
The moral and political dilemmas of the time seem so clear in retrospect.
By Adam Kirsch
The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
By Michael Adams
The Coming of Prohibition
By Michael A. Lerner
Thomas Pearson repelled American forces, driving Canada toward nationhood.
By Donald E. Graves
Oberlin, Ohio, was an abolitionist stronghold, but not impermeable.
By Daniel J. Sharfstein
Middle schoolers comb through diaries, trek over battlefields, and relive history with cameras in hand.
By Amy Lifson
Property of Tennessee Williams
What a souvenir statue tells us about his writing.
By Christopher McDonough
The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
By Susan Goodman
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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
