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George Washington possessed a unique set of qualities that inspired the people of 13 British colonies to create a new country. He...
Let’s face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can’t take advantage...
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
Life handed a shipwreck to the owner of the schooner Nancy during a storm off the New England coast in 1927. So...