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The secret message in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug"

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)

Poe’s story of a treasure hunt, revealing the fantastical writer’s hyper-rational penchant for cracking codes.
via The Public Domain Review on July 18, 2019

A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.
by Steven Hoelscher via Smithsonian on July 1, 2019
Glowing white "No" against a red background.

“Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

Some kind, some weird, some unbelievably harsh.
by Emily Temple via Literary Hub on June 19, 2019
Workers with a steam plough on a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico.

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.
by Peter James Hudson via Boston Review on June 18, 2019
Portrait of Anne Lister

The 19th Century Lesbian Made for 21st Century Consumption

Jeanna Kadlec considers Anne Lister, the center figure of HBO’s Gentleman Jack, and the influence of other preceding queer women.
by Jeanne Kadlec via Longreads on June 6, 2019
Book cover of Upton Sinclair's book, featuring text and his profile

Mankind, Unite!

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult.
by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 13, 2019
A nurse standing by a patient's bed during the Spanish Flu.

Did We Forget to Memorialize Spanish Flu Because Women Were the Heroes?

Sure, it came on the heels of World War I, but it was way more deadly.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 18, 2019
Portrait of Emily Dickinson next to a portrait of Susan Gilbert

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert

“Come with me this morning to the church within our hearts, where the bells are always ringing, and the preacher whose name is Love — shall intercede for us!”
by Maria Popova via Brainpickings on December 10, 2018

Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess

How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.
by Jamie Lauren Keiles via Vox on December 5, 2018

The Great War’s Great Price

Revisiting the wreckage on the centenary of the armistice.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Review on October 25, 2018
Film still of Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.

How Reconsidering Atticus Finch Makes Us Reconsider America

A new book offers lessons drawn from Harper Lee's ambivalent treatment of this iconic character.
by Joseph Crespino, Brandon Tensley via Pacific Standard on October 10, 2018

Columbus Believed He Would Find ‘Blemmyes’ and ‘Sciapods’ – Not People – in the New World

Columbus wasn't unique in his belief that bizarre, monstrous humanoids inhabited the far reaches of the world.
by Peter C. Mancall via The Conversation on October 5, 2018
Collage of paper clippings including headless a running man, an explosion where his head would be, and a jet flying alongside him.

Ante Up: The Scales of Power Seen Through Norman Podhoretz’s Eyes

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.
by Frank Guan via The Point on September 29, 2018

The Surprising History (and Future) of Dinosaurs

For well over a hundred years, paleontology has done double duty as mass entertainment.
by Chantel Tattoli via The Paris Review on September 28, 2018
Children bringing home remains of a bed. Coal mining camp, Scotts Run, West Virginia. (1938)

James M. Cain and the West Virginia Mine Wars

Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars.
by Sean Carswell via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 25, 2018

William Faulkner Was Really Bad at Being a Postman

Good thing he had other talents.
by Emily Temple via Literary Hub on September 25, 2018

The Untranslatable Caudillo

Talk about caudillos is always, in reality, a discussion of their followers.
by Ernesto Semán via Popula on August 13, 2018

The Complicated Fight Over Walt Whitman's Sole Surviving NYC Home

A somewhat neglected vinyl-sided house is now at the center of a literary legacy battle.
by Jim O'Grady via Gothamist on July 26, 2018
illustration of orange groves with snow-capped mountains in the distance

The Dreams and Myths That Sold LA

How city leaders and real estate barons used sunshine and oranges to market Los Angeles.
by Hadley Meares via Curbed on May 24, 2018

Lonesome for Our Home

Zora Neale Hurston’s long-lost oral history with one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on May 23, 2018
Thomas Jefferson's library at the Library of Congress.

Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 15, 2018
Intricately painted Easter eggs.

Why Easter Never Became a Big Secular Holiday like Christmas

Hint: the Puritans were involved.
by Tara Isabella Burton via Vox on March 29, 2018
Portrait of Charles Knowlton
partner

Charles Knowlton, the Father of American Birth Control

Decades after Charles Knowlton died, his book would be credited with reversing population growth in England and the popularization of contraception in the U.S.
by Amy Sohn, Robert E. Riegel, Wilson Yates, Roderick S. French via JSTOR Daily on March 21, 2018
Victorian couple courting with a church steeple in the background

Victorian Era

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Tona Hangen via Digital Public Library of America on February 28, 2018

Bohemian Tragedy

The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.
by Joy Lanzendorfer via Poetry Foundation on February 26, 2018

A Terraqueous Counter-Narrative in US History

For hundreds of years, Florida has had the reputation of being a little unstable.
by D. Berton Emerson via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 18, 2018
W.E.B. Du Bois

The Soul of W. E. B. Du Bois

Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Paris Review on February 14, 2018

Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

A look at the ornate float and costume designs from Carnival’s “Golden Age."
by Allison C. Meier via The Public Domain Review on February 7, 2018
Mark Twain and Dorothy Quick.

Mark Twain’s Disturbing Passion for Collecting Young Girls

In his later years, the famous writer surrounded himself with a bevy of adoring adolescents.
by Linda Simon via The Paris Review on November 28, 2017

Why A 19th Century American Slave Memoir Is Becoming A Bestseller In Japan's Bookstores

Why "Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861), became a hit in Japan when it was published there in 2013.
by Jake Adelstein via Forbes on November 15, 2017
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