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Cover of Rafael Rojas' new book.

Words Are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go

A new book recovers long-suppressed alternative politics.

by Patrick Iber via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 28, 2016

Frederick Douglass.

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech is widely known as one of the greatest abolitionist speeches ever.

via BackStory on July 7, 2014

Portrait of Ambrose Bierce with skull

One of America's Best

Ambrose Bierce deviated from the refined eeriness of English-style ghost stories for his haunting descriptions of fateful coincidence and horrific revelation.

by Michael Dirda via New York Review of Books on May 10, 2012

Flora and Femininity: Gender and Botany in Early America

Embroidered orchards and peony hair ornaments testify that women were practitioners of floral display, but many women sought knowledge as well as style.

by Susan Branson via Commonplace on January 1, 2012

Black and white photo of John Muir sitting on a rock

John Muir's Literary Science

The writings of the Scottish-born American naturalist John Muir are known for their scientific acumen as well as for their rhapsodic flights.

by Terry Gifford via The Public Domain Review on June 9, 2011

Mystic Nights

The making of “Blonde on Blonde” in Nashville, Tennessee.

by Sean Wilentz via Oxford American on September 20, 2007

Cover of the New York Review issue after JFK's assassination, featuring a seal with an eagle that has been felled by arrows.

The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After

Reflections on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

by Richard Hofstadter, Irving Howe, Dwight Macdonald, Norman Mailer, David Riesman, George Lichtheim, Richard H. Rovere, Benjamin DeMott, Neal Ascherson, Hans J. Morgenthau, C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 26, 1963

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