Ted Widmer

Ted Widmer directs the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He is a contributing editor of The American Scholar.

Founder of Our Freedoms

Rhode Island’s religious tolerance

By Ted Widmer | Thursday March 1, 2012

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

By Ted Widmer | Monday September 1, 2008

Arthur of Camelot

Remembering Arthur Schlesinger, a knight-errant with typewriter

By Ted Widmer | Friday June 1, 2007

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?

By Ted Widmer | Friday December 1, 2006

Honestly, Abe

By Ted Widmer | Thursday December 1, 2005

Findings: Honestly, Abe!

By Ted Widmer | Thursday December 1, 2005

Into the Swamp

How will The Atlantic fare when it leaves the capital of dissent?

By Ted Widmer | Wednesday June 1, 2005

So Help Me God

What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history

By Ted Widmer | Wednesday December 1, 2004

Founder of Our Freedoms

By Ted Widmer | Thursday March 1, 2012

Where Does American History Begin?

By Ted Widmer | Monday September 1, 2008

Arthur of Camelot

By Ted Widmer | Friday June 1, 2007

THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess

By Ted Widmer | Friday December 1, 2006

Honestly, Abe

By Ted Widmer | Thursday December 1, 2005

Findings: Honestly, Abe!

By Ted Widmer | Thursday December 1, 2005

Into the Swamp

By Ted Widmer | Wednesday June 1, 2005

So Help Me God

By Ted Widmer | Wednesday December 1, 2004

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