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Keeping the Faith
: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Brenda Wineapple
2024
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In Search of the Real Hannah Crafts
"The Bondwoman’s Narrative" is the first novel by a Black woman to describe slavery from the inside. Recently, scholars have discovered her true identity.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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July 25, 2024
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
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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
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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
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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
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May 8, 2019
The Large Policy
How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
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Brenda Wineapple
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The Nation
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January 31, 2018