CONCORD, Mass. – It was a Hawthorne family reunion, for the dead and the living. About 40 descendants of Nathaniel Hawthorne gathered in Concord on Monday to watch as the remains of his wife and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Bowdoin College Class of 1825 is revered as the greatest in the school’s ...

It was a meeting of a gothic genius and a political magus. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist from Salem, Mass., and Abraham Lincoln, the politician from New Salem, Ill., didn’t speak to each other — ...

Part I in a weekly series of articles about young Nathaniel Hawthorne, written by Rae Padilla Francoeur in conjunction with The House of the Seven Gables. At dusk, Young Goodman Brown sets off on “a ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel ...

Although Greek mythology is considered a staple of childhood literature today, before Nathaniel Hawthorne, these stories were considered to be too adult in theme for children, according to Sheila ...

I've got a piece about The Blithedale Romance over at Barron's. I'm making the case that the novel is a not only a great and neglected meditation on the very essence of America as an "intentional ...

In 1933, when Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas had lunch with the first lady in the White House, the conversation turned to the conditions of the working class, and Eleanor Roosevelt said to ...