Stories by samclemens

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

On the Centennial of Iris Murdoch’s Birth, Remembering a 20th-Century Giant

The Poetry of Motels

George Washington’s Midwives

“The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of Capitalism

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