Brenda Wineapple

America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of unity and inventiveness in the wake of civil war and recession.

Fans and pundits have frequently wrapped Zohran Mamdani in Fiorello La Guardia’s mythic mantle—even when the comparison seems naïve or premature.

On the hundredth anniversary of Tennessee v. Scopes.

A new history of New York City during World War II captures the glory, tawdriness, poverty, narcissism, beauty, and grime of this “aggregation of villages.”

Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.

"The Bondwoman’s Narrative" is the first novel by a Black woman to describe slavery from the inside. Recently, scholars have discovered her true identity.

In the poetry of Jones Very, whom his contemporaries considered “eccentric” and “mad," the self is detached from everything by an intoxicated egoism.

A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.

Kristen Green’s "The Devil’s Half Acre" recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

A new edition of Emily Dickinson’s Master letters highlights what remains blazingly intense and mysterious in her work.