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Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

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Historic marker for the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis at Port Jervis.

Death by Northern White Hands

On Philip Dray’s “A Lynching at Port Jervis.”

by Adolf Alzuphar via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 26, 2023

Collage of Stephen Crane with Civil War scenes

The Miracle of Stephen Crane

Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on October 18, 2021

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A hundred years at the edge of empire.

by Stephen Benz via Literary Hub on January 30, 2019

Photos of Harriet Boyd and Cora Stewart.

They Were Fearless 1890s War Correspondents—and They Were Women

Were Harriet Boyd and Cora Stewart rivals in Greece in 1897? The fog of war has obscured a groundbreaking tale.

by Richard Byrne via The New Republic on August 25, 2023

Green House: A Brief History of “American Poetry”

Tracing its emergence of as a distinct cultural institution.

by Frank Guan via Prelude on September 22, 2014

This 1874 New York Herald Feature Sent Manhattanites Running for Their Lives

James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s most eccentric public service announcement.

by Hampton Sides via Slate on July 24, 2014

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