Randall Fuller is the Chapman Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and author of The Book that Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation (Viking, 2017).
Like his fellow abolitionists, Brace drew on Darwin’s writings to guide his thinking.
It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and the conflict between publication and privacy.
How the Civil War changed Walt Whitman's poetry.
2018 Spring
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