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Photo: Langston Hughes, 1943. Credit: Gordon Parks; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

On This Day: ‘Harlem Renaissance’ Author Langston Hughes Died

By Tony Pettinato on May 22, 2017

An article about the life and death of “Harlem Renaissance” African American author Langston Hughes, who died on 22 May 1967... (Read More)

Photo: American journalist Nellie Bly, in a publicity photo for her around-the-world voyage, 1890. Credit: New York Public Library Archives; Wikimedia Commons.

Remembering Intrepid Nellie Bly, World War I Reporter

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 18, 2017

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega describes the World War I reporting by pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly... (Read More)

Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Charles Osgood, 1840. Credit: Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of Richard C. Manning, 1933; Wikimedia Commons.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter’ an Instant Best-seller

By Tony Pettinato on March 16, 2017

An article about the publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” on 16 March 1850... (Read More)

Photo: Edgar Allan Poe, c. May-June 1849. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Death as Mysterious as His Stories

By Duncan Kuehn on October 23, 2014

Explore the puzzling circumstances surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's death, a real-life story as mysterious as anything he wrote. Find out more!.. (Read More)


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