Walt Whitman gives beauty to the soldiers dying under his care in the hospital. The goriest, most wrenching passage in his Memoranda During the War…
Walt Whitman called Washington, D.C. a city of “romance,” “of things begun.” It might seem an odd description by a man who spent countless hours witnessing…
Publishing history crowns Manhattan as the enduring capital of the American publishing world, despite the many changes the internet has wrought. Before the twentieth century,…
Streets paved with stone are generally called “cobblestone” streets. But they’re not always made of cobblestone. “Cobbles” are rounded stones worn smooth by water. “Belgian block”…
A 32-page book written and published by the Arizona Territory Legislature in 1871 begins: “It is customary and generally considered to be to the interest…
My father was deployed in Viet Nam when I was a little kid. I missed Dad more than anything and prayed hard every night that he…