Sportswriter Alexander Wolff: “Basketball becomes a way of working through things”
Edgar Allan Poe, “Morning on the Wissahiccon”
Edith Roberts, “Indiana’s Town of Champions”
Historian Eric Foner: “In some sense, Reconstruction never ended”
Brooks D. Simpson: Faithfulness to the historical record places race at the center of Reconstruction
Ring Lardner, “Simple Simon”
Science fiction authority presents a Universe-expanding exhibition in New York City
Edith Maude Eaton, “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants”
Cultural panic and overwhelming change: Richard White looks back on America’s first Gilded Age
The Battle of Huế, fifty years later: the first draft of history as “a vital public service”
George Ade, “Mark Twain as Our Emissary”
Richard White on Frank Norris, The Octopus, and the Southern Pacific Railroad
Morgan Jerkins: Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist made me believe that I could be honest
Cheston Knapp: Weird, feral Ralph Waldo Emerson, wily William Gass, and other influences on Up Up, Down Down
Jefferson’s Daughters: Catherine Kerrison measures the chasm between the rhetoric and reality of revolution