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The Voice of Unfiltered Spirit
In the poetry of Jones Very, whom his contemporaries considered “eccentric” and “mad," the self is detached from everything by an intoxicated egoism.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
on
January 18, 2024
Living in Words
A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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October 13, 2022
A Fable of Agency
Kristen Green’s "The Devil’s Half Acre" recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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May 5, 2022
New England Ecstasies
The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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February 16, 2022
Dickinson’s Improvisations
A new edition of Emily Dickinson’s Master letters highlights what remains blazingly intense and mysterious in her work.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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June 12, 2021
A Posthumous Life
Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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April 8, 2021
‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’
Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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December 20, 2020
Our First Authoritarian Crackdown
A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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June 23, 2020
Mike Pence’s Impeachment Hero Is a Corrupt 19th Century Politician
An historian debunks the vice president’s op-ed.
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Brenda Wineapple
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Mark Joseph Stern
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Slate
on
January 17, 2020
The Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Supreme Court justice may have been heralded by many of his progressive peers, but the legacy he left behind is far more ambiguous.
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Brenda Wineapple
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The Nation
on
August 13, 2019
The Author of a New Book About Andrew Johnson on the Right Reasons to Impeach a President
Johnson’s impeachment was driven by his refusal to rid the country of the lingering effects of slavery.
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Brenda Wineapple
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Isaac Chotiner
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The New Yorker
on
May 8, 2019
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He Was No Moses
While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.
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David S. Reynolds
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New York Review of Books
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December 16, 2021
Is Impeachment Only About Getting a Conviction?
A new history of Andrew Johnson’s trial reminds us the impeachment is a tool to constrain executive abuse of power and publicize dissent on matters of policy.
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Stephanie McCurry
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The Nation
on
January 30, 2020
‘Impeachment Polka’: How a Composer in 1868 Sought to Capitalize on America’s Political Obsession
A pianist performs a piece of music forgotten for 150 years.
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Philip Bump
via
Washington Post
on
January 16, 2020
Trump's not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson.
Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.
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Tim Murphy
via
Mother Jones
on
December 20, 2019
Making Impeachment Matter
Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.
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Alex Pareene
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The New Republic
on
November 21, 2019
A National Debate Over Politics, Principles and Impeachment — in 1868
Was the impeachment of Andrew Johnson a matter of national principles? Or an affair of pragmatic politics?
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John Fabian Witt
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Washington Post
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May 24, 2019