Download PDF version “If someday a tourist notices, among the ruins of New York City, a copy of Leaves of Grass, and stops and picks it up and reads some lines in it, she will be able to say...
Download PDF version “A short story succeeds, if it does, as a series or play of echoes. Its marvelously rigorous discipline does not allow for explanation, whether authorial or disguised through a protagonist.” – Nadine Gordimer Ernest Hemingway’s...
Download PDF version “It isn’t nice to block the doorway. It isn’t nice to go to jail. There are nicer ways to do it. But the nice ways always fail.” — Malvina Reynold (1964) On June 28th, 1969,...
Download PDF version Today we celebrate the life and work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Born on June 14th, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, Stowe’s legacy as an author, abolitionist, and leader in the women’s rights movement continues to pervade the American...
Download PDF version Walt Whitman was a Long-Island born poet who is most notably known for Leaves of Grass (1855), a work that was inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s call for great poets to render the genuine American experience. In...
Download PDF version “I ought to go upright and vital and speak the rude truth in all ways.” – Emerson, Self-Reliance It was two days ago, May 25th, that we celebrated Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth. Born in 1803...
Download PDF version On April 29, 1992, a riot (eventually dubbed the LA Riots) commenced in Los Angeles, lasting six days. One catalyst to this six-day riot was the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers for their brutal...
Download PDF version Sixty years ago today, April 17, 1961, a CIA-operated group of Cuban exiles sought to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro in what is known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. The planning for this overthrow...
Download PDF version Regarded as one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century, Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams III) was born on 26 March, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. He was the son of Cornelius Coffins Williams and Edwina...
Download PDF version On this day, March 22, forty-nine years ago, a landmark decision in US women’s history was made. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution was passed by the Senate in 1972, but it was still necessary...
