George Templeton Strong

George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

George Templeton Strong’s Civil War diaries are a sobering object lesson for today’s reader.

What were Americans' immediate responses to "A Christmas Carol," and how did Dickens' reading tours and eventual death reshape its meaning?

Nineteenth-century New York City was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia.

For a burgeoning consumer society, store-bought flags and bonnets offered proof that commercialism could go hand in hand with heartfelt emotion.

While Poe was likely using opium, the efforts to keep him quiet suggest that he was also drinking.

A new biography details the cultural jumble of literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the making of the foremost self-made American.

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.