Stories by samclemens

Barnum Effect

A literary prank that ‘Hansel and Gretel’ was based on a real story

Thomas Mann's War Against Hitler

Paranoid and Madcap, the Manchurian Candidate Is Our Timeliest Novel

On the Hunt for National Treasures with America’s Archive Detective

Moon Fever

Land of the Free: A brief history of early American nudists

A 19th-Century Catfishing Scheme

The Life and Death of an American Indie Press

Remembering David Berman Through His Lyrics and Poems

Emancipation and Beyond – Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Did John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA?

A Quest for the Holy Grail: On D. W. Pasulka’s “American Cosmic”

Nelson Algren: Chicago’s Bard of the Downtrodden

How Capitalism Changed American Literature

Iris the Insoluble

WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)

Telautograph

A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore

Friends Like These: On Thoreau and Emerson

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