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Ted Widmer

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

So Help Me God

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 01, 2004
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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 01, 2008
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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 01, 2006
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Founder of Our Freedoms

Rhode Island's religious tolerance

by Ted Widmer | Thursday, March 01, 2012
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Into the Swamp

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

by Ted Widmer | Wednesday, June 01, 2005
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Arthur of Camelot

Remembering Arthur Schlesinger, a knight-errant with typewriter

by Ted Widmer | Friday, June 01, 2007

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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