Carolyn Barske Crawford is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. Chestnut Trees in Bloom, by William Henry Holmes. [Smithsonian American Art Museum] At one time, more ...

Literary criticism and the practice of law would seem to have little in common. One embraces its subjective stance, while the other appeals to a fixed code of conduct. Yet there are signs of ...

In the late 1870s, the 70-year-old newspaper editor Henry Boernstein sat down to write about German immigrants’ efforts to shape the United States into a less brutal, more enlightened republic ...