Stories by samclemens

Is Mark Twain’s old age best forgotten?

A Worthy Cause?

Washington Plays Itself

Comparing editions of David Walker’s abolitionist “Appeal”

Sammy's Bowery Follies, circa 1945

People who decide what becomes history

Fools at Court

Indigenous American Cylinder Recordings and the American Folklife Center (2013)

Heroic Newsboy Funerals

Praising Maple Sugar in the Early American Republic

Apollo 10 1/2 Reanimated Houston’s Lost Memories of the ’60s

The Unsung Women of the Betty Crocker Test Kitchens

The Brief Life of the Soviet Republic of Sailors and Fortress-Builders (2021)

Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup

May I Quote?

Cooking with Dorothy Sayers

Some Like It Fraught: How Billy Wilder Survived the Twentieth Century

‘American Urbanist’ Review: Standing Out of the Crowd with William H. Whyte

The legend of the horned rabbit of the West

A Private Gentleman: On “The Trials of Harry S. Truman”

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