The American master of horror fiction was as peculiar in his life as he was in his writing
He may have been the greatest caricaturist of all time—he has imitators to this day—but his true passion was for a very different discipline
In an exchange of letters, a man who had an immeasurable impact on how the great struggle of our times was waged looks back on how it began.
As a ten-year-old boy, the author had a role to play in bringing Douglas MacArthur’s vision of democracy to a shattered Japan
Three movies newly available on video cast a cold—and occasionally even scornful—eye on their subjects
How two bold sisters set up a business in the very citadel of masculine prerogative: 1870s Wall Street
The saga of Liberia’s beginnings reflects both America’ humanitarian generosity and its racism
Every December, a 350-year-old New Hampshire port re-creates centuries of changing holiday traditions
Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian: 1809-1922
From the Age That Is Past: Harvard Club of New York City: A History
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