Stories by samclemens

Unchained Melody: The dark side of Harry Houdini

The 1950s plan for a Washington Square Highway (2014)

What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus

As a Teenager, I Hated Johnny Carson. Then Came the Pandemic

Broomstick Weddings

Charles Dickens, the Writer Who Saw Lockdown Everywhere

How New York became a metropolis of stoops

Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back

Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories

Degeneration Nation: How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse

Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers

What the Church Meant for James Baldwin

Satirist to the Galaxy

Illuminating Conspiracy

William James and the Spiritualist’s Phone (2019)

Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America

How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Diary of Alice James (2017)

Lord of Misrule: Thomas Morton’s American Subversions

An Awful and Beautiful Light

John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts

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