Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis and the small-town science of yearning.

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.

Cameron Laux looks at how The Age of Innocence – published 100 years ago – marked a pivotal moment in US history.

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.

Power and choice in the 1930s novel.

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

Basic healthcare in the 20th Century greatly impacted the way that the drug business currently operates in the United States.

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

By examining the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties, we can recognize similarities between today and democracy's last near-death experience.

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’

Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism. Still, we are witnessing a story that's unlikely to have a happy ending.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

When the iconic painter drew cowboys for the pulp-fiction magazine, 'Adventure.'

The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.

How Americans got so weird about science.

Jill Lepore on disease outbreaks of pandemic proportions, media scares, and the parrot-fever panic of 1930.