America Archives - The American Scholar

Bitter Fruits

By Katarzyna Nowak | 03/27/2018 |

Decades after leaving the Eastern Bloc, an author recalls the American dream

A Voice From the Swamp

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 05/10/2017 |

A surprising source of Trump support

Peak Democracy

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 05/03/2017 |

“Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People” and Other Myths

By Stephanie Bastek | 07/12/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Dennis A. Henigan’s updated book about gun control

Good Neighbors

By Stephanie Bastek | 06/14/2016 |

An excerpt from Nancy L. Rosenblum’s new book about everyday American life

The Great Summing Up

By James Gibney | 06/06/2016 |

The volumes that compiled the knowledge and spirit of an age

Greetings from Paris

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 06/01/2016 |

America’s Snake

By Stephanie Bastek | 05/24/2016 |

An excerpt from Ted Levin’s new book about the rise and fall of the rattlesnake

Hail to the Chiefs

By Michael Sherry | 12/07/2015 |

Leaders of the last century

Jazz and Bras

By Brian Doyle | 12/10/2014 |

Add basketball and you have a few of my favorite American things