Where Does American History Begin?
Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down
Arthur of Camelot
Remembering Arthur Schlesinger, a knight-errant with typewriter
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess
Who knew that mixing the intelligent and the idiosyncratic would yield a long life for a certain small quarterly?
Into the Swamp
How will The Atlantic fare when it leaves the capital of dissent?
So Help Me God
What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history