Augustine Sedgewick

Augustine Sedgewick is the author of Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Fa-vorite Drug, winner of the 2022 Cherasco Prize, and the forthcoming Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power.

Thoreau’s Pencils

How might a newly discovered
connection to slavery change
our understanding of an abolitionist
hero and his writing?

By Augustine Sedgewick | Thursday October 17, 2024

Ku Klux Khaki

The far right’s signature style is less about dad pants and more about fatherhood

By Augustine Sedgewick | Saturday April 30, 2022

Thoreau’s Pencils

By Augustine Sedgewick | Thursday October 17, 2024

Ku Klux Khaki

By Augustine Sedgewick | Saturday April 30, 2022

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