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His World and Work
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic�...
What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second Edition
The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education acce...
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
“Excellent . . . stunning.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War A New York Times Notabl...
What It Was, Is, and Should Be
Looks at what a college education should be, arguing that it is a time for students to explore their passions and values, should be available to every...
The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodle...
or, The Whale
Herman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history—featuring an introduc...
How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil
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A Meditation on Hope
Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville’s words, “the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart,” how have we Americans made d...
An Essay on the Liberal Spirit in America
This is a vivid portrayal of the man who led the movement toward liberal religion in America. Andrew Delbanco traces the development of Channing's thi...
Volume III, Issue #3
"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance""Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is""Liberties is THE place to be." Liberties, a Journal of Cultu...
Why Our American Classics Matter Now
Essays discuss nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, from Henry Adams to Zora Neale Hurston...