Stories by samclemens

How to Design a Vernacular Chair

Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty

The Quiet Revolution of the Sabbath

Sketches of misfortune in an insurance trade card

Travelin’ man and woman: Taking to the road and the boxcar

One robber baron’s gamble on railroads

A magnificent 1850s house dubbed the Blue Belle of Brooklyn

Mysteries of the Court of Miracles

The Early Days of American English

Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry

A Harvard library mystery: Was a Titanic victim’s rare book a fake?

Dog who served on both sides of the American Revolution

How iceberg won the lettuce wars

The headline-grabbing debate over which explorer reached the North Pole soonest

A Man Who Transformed American Theater

A Repugnance to Autobiography

When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon

The Master Fabulist of American Fiction

Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum

California Job Case

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