Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
Many school kids have a special affinity for e.e. cummings, who wrote about the circus and got away with funky punctuation, made-up...
Some people believe that the Rough Riders were almost all cowboys from out West. After all, it had earned the nickname “The...
John Adams’ daughter in 1785 dumped the charming rake Royall Tyler to marry a dashing military hero. She may well have regretted...
Edith Wharton belonged to the old-money, upper-crust New York society to which F. Scott Fitzgerald aspired. Wharton, like the much younger Fitzgerald,...
In 1968, John Updike blew the cover off a high-living, raucous little group of people in Ipswich, Mass., with the publication of...