Nathaniel Hawthorne

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

Literary history is packed into Concord’s “Old Manse,” but the tiny abode of Walden’s author proves the highlight of our New England trip.

Abortion and "The Scarlet Letter."

A spectre is haunting houses—the spectre of possession.

“No harm if true; but, in fact, not true.”

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focusing on.

It just might be the great American art form. You can thank the residents of Salem for that.

Can we appreciate Herman Melville’s work without attributing to it schemes for the uplift of modern man?

The representation of Jews in antebellum popular culture reveals that many Americans found them both cartoonishly villainous and enticingly exotic.

Touring the palimpsests of cities.

The Puritans outlawed Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan" because it was critical of the society they were building in colonial New England.

Stephanie Mueller´s book sheds light on the percieved death of liberalism and the fear of corporations.

Dispatches from a spine-tingling day of visits to the places where James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Thomas Cole created their most famous works.

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation's newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today.

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

Why have historians overlooked the connections between abolitionism and the famous New England cultural movement?

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?

How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts.