Stories by samclemens

The Kept and the Killed: the history behind a hole-punched archive

Campbell Soup turned New Jersey into a tomato-growing state

Curse of the Colonel

Notes from the End of a Long Life

Sinclair Lewis saw Middle America as it was

‘Tractor Wars’ Review: American Power Pull

The Mosaicist: On Evan S. Connell

$30 Drawing Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions

The Coin Standard: On the Failed Dreams of William Hope Harvey

Odd Showers (1870)

George Orwell Outside the Whale

Frost at Midnight

HG Wells and the Human Animal

William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker

George Sand’s Boots

The Comforts of a Single State

Saturday Night’s All Right: The invention of payday

Chasing Phillis Wheatley: Uncovering other possibilities from the past

A Donkey’s Day in Court

Novel Transport: The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre

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