The rise of the restaurant.
An "unwilling participant" in the American Revolution writes from her fortified Cambridge, Massachusetts, home.
Domesticity on the rise in Oregon.
With Henry David Thoreau, winter walks can quickly turn into "frolic gambols."
Newspaper Contest in 1908 asked "When Is It Time to Go Home?"
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
By Meredith Hindley
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
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The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
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By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
John Muir, Nature's Witness
The founder of the Sierra Club worshiped the outdoor world.
By Anna Maria Gillis