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Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple’s most recent book, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, was just published in paperback. (October 2020)

Longfellow’s Gentle Phantoms

Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

October 22, 2020 issue

‘Congressional Pugilists’; an anonymous cartoon depicting Republican and Federalist congressmen fighting on the floor of the House, 1798

Our First Authoritarian Crackdown

Wendell Bird’s ‘Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions Under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798’

Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions Under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

by Wendell Bird

July 2, 2020 issue

George Whitefield delivering a sermon in England; painting by John Collet, 1700s

Dress Rehearsal for the Revolution

American Demagogue: The Great Awakening and the Rise and Fall of Populism

by J.D. Dickey

March 12, 2020 issue

‘I Have Let Whitman Alone’

Horace Traubel’s monumental chronicle of Whitman’s reflections, ruminations, analyses, and affirmations

April 18, 2019 issue

The Brilliance of Sybille Bedford

A writer who understood firsthand the burdens of survival

March 5, 2015 issue

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