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David S. Reynolds

David S. Reynolds, a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography, Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson, and John Brown, Abolitionist. His book Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times will be published in September. (April 2020)

A postcard of Brigham Young and twenty-one of his wives, 1903

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do…

Polygamy: An Early American History

by Sarah M.S. Pearsall

April 9, 2020 issue

‘Mother Abbess Strangling the Infant’; lithograph from the anti-Catholic pamphlet Popery!: As It Was and as It Is, 1845

The Popery Panic

Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America

by Cassandra L. Yacovazzi

Elizabeth Seton: American Saint

by Catherine O’Donnell

April 18, 2019 issue

Walt Whitman and his rebel soldier friend Pete Doyle, Washington, D.C., 1865

Fine Specimens

‘The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War’ by Lindsay Tuggle

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

by Lindsay Tuggle

Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition

by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer

March 22, 2018 issue

A slave family, Savannah, Georgia, early 1860s

The Slave Owners’ Foreign Policy

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

by Matthew Karp

June 22, 2017 issue

‘Battle of the Thames—Death of Tecumseh’; engraving by William Wellstood after a painting by Alonzo Chappel, 1882

Our Ruinous Betrayal of Indians and Black Americans

Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

by Nicholas Guyatt

December 22, 2016 issue

James M. McPherson giving a tour of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, 2008

The Commander of Civil War History

Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

by James M. McPherson

The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters

by James M. McPherson

November 19, 2015 issue

John Brown, circa 1856

An Exchange on John Brown

May 9, 2013 issue

Letter

Were Hawthorne’s Politics ‘Disgraceful’?

July 11, 2013 issue

Judging the Age of Jackson: An Exchange

July 2, 2009 issue

The Concise Whitman

November 3, 2005 issue

Loading the Canon

January 19, 1989 issue

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