Brenda Wineapple is a member of the editorial board of The American Scholar. She is the author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877.
Brenda Wineapple
The First President To Be Impeached
Andrew Johnson beat the charges against him by a single vote, but what did the nation lose?
by Brenda Wineapple | Monday, March 04, 2019
Ladies Last
After the Civil War, both women and black men struggled to win the vote. Why the men succeeded
by Brenda Wineapple | Monday, June 10, 2013
Pleasure out of Desperation
Thomas Eakins, yearning for the ideal in a materialistic age
by Brenda Wineapple | Friday, December 01, 2006
The Odd Couple
by Brenda Wineapple | Monday, June 02, 2014
Voices of a Nation
In the 19th century, American writers struggled to discover who they were and who we are
by Brenda Wineapple | Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Con Man
A writer catalogs his great-grandfather’s infamous crimes
by Brenda Wineapple | Friday, June 01, 2012
Findings: The Battered Trunk
by Brenda Wineapple | Wednesday, June 01, 2005
The Battered Trunk
by Brenda Wineapple | Wednesday, June 01, 2005
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