The First President To Be Impeached
Andrew Johnson beat the charges against him by a single vote, but what did the nation lose?
Ladies Last
After the Civil War, both women and black men struggled to win the vote. Why the men succeeded
Con Man
A writer catalogs his great-grandfather’s infamous crimes
John Brown’s Folly
The mythology of a madman
Voices of a Nation
In the 19th century, American writers struggled to discover who they were and who we are
Her Own Society
When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time
Pleasure out of Desperation
Thomas Eakins, yearning for the ideal in a materialistic age
