Stories by samclemens

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

The Resurrection of Bass Reeves

The Mysterious Case of Mr. X

A day with the squirrel hawkers of East Texas

Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir

The City Which Would Not Be Cowed: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871

The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay

When Americans picnicked in cemeteries

Thoreau in Love

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