Stories by samclemens

Last survivor of transatlantic slave trade discovered

Zerah Colburn (mental calculator)

Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel

Scientists Pit Sourdough Against White Bread–With Surprising Results (2017)

Joseph Smith and the Early Mormons Challenged American Democracy

Surrender in the American Civil War (2019)

Orwell's List

This story just won’t write (2013)

What our contagion fables are really about

Literature for a Lockdown

Tracing the American cemetery from the colonial age to the Gilded Age

The Logic of the Rebel: On Simone Weil and Albert Camus

“First Cow,” Reviewed: Fatalistic Portrait of Early American Entrepreneurs

Universal health care was almost part of the Social Security Act of 1935 (2017)

The American Frontier Continues to Shape Us (2018)

The Iowa Architect Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing

Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace

Archaeologists uncover Missoula's 'red light district,' Chinese community

Emily Dickinson Escapes

Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery

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