For pleasure or as a spiritual discipline, bird-watching is “a lesson in respect and humility”
Kate Chopin, “Cavanelle”
Ring Lardner, “Quick Returns”
New “passion project” documentary Flannery reveals the writer who revealed mysteries
Joseph Warren, “The Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770”
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “Solomon”
(Re)introducing the “decidedly unsentimental and modern” Constance Fenimore Woolson
Happy 200th birthday, Susan B. Anthony
James Monroe, “The President in Peril”
Frederick Douglass, “Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln”