The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography. If not in the columns of the Atlantic, where else, by the way, should it be asked why the Letters of Lanier, edited by Mr. W. R.

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"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...

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Nathan Rabin is the longtime head writer for The A.V. Club, the entertainment section of The Onion and the author of The Big Rewind. What does it mean to be a great American? Ask five of your ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Before crowdsourcing, there was groupthink. The first sounds almost jolly: a mosh pit of ideas. The ...