Ellen Feldman

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Ellen Feldman is an author, historian, and 2009 Guggenheim Fellow who has written three books: Scottsboro, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, and Lucy. Feldman frequently writes for The Huffington Post and American Heritage, and has lectured across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

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Anne Frank In America | February/March 2005
When the single most famous document to come out of the Holocaust was published in America half a century ago, it caused a sensation that made and ruined reputations and ignited furious arguments that resonate today Read >>
Before & After | February/March 2004
Cosmetic surgery was born 2,500 years ago and came of age in the inferno of the Western Front. The controversy about it is still growing. Read >>
FDR And His Women | March 2003
A novelist who has just spent several years with them tells a moving story of love: public and private, given and withheld Read >>
Roosevelt | October 2002
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Ocean Liner | September 2001
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Halloween | October 2001
From its birth in pagan transactions with the dead to the current marketing push to make it a “seasonal experience,” America’s fastest-growing holiday has a history far older (and far stranger) than does Christmas itself Read >>
The Perils Of Immortality | July/August 2000
For centuries the Newport rich have been commissioning portraits of themselves—and sometimes getting a surprise when they see the results Read >>
Till Divorce Do Us Part | November 2000
It has been with us since Plymouth Colony. But that’s not why it’s an American institution. Read >>
Splitting Headaches | November 2000
The Ten Most Scandalous Divorces in American History Read >>

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