Studies of Factory Life: The Village System
The first installment in a four-part series on American cotton manufacturing
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
The Red Cross
From November 1887
Responsible Government Under the Constitution
“The question is not merely, How shall the methods of Congress be clarified and its ways made purposeful and responsible? There is this greater question at stake: How shall the essential arrangements of the Constitution be preserved?”
Some Testimony in the Case
Conversations with Southerners about race relations and life in the aftermath of the Civil War
The Red Sunsets
“When this volcanic dust ceases to glorify our skies at dawn and eve, we shall part with what has probably been the most remarkable and picturesque accident to the earth's physical life that has been known with the limits of recorded history.”
Colonialism in the United States
“We alone can use properly our own resources; and no work in art or literature ever has been, or ever will be, of any real or lasting value which is not true, original, and independent.”
Some Traits of Bismarck
He “fought out the battles of his generation with ‘blood and iron, not with parliamentary speeches;’ and restored the medieval brigands to the place which had so long been usurped by a race of dyspeptic philosophers.”
The Story of a Great Monopoly
”These incidents in railroad history show most of the points where we fail ... to maintain the equities of ‘government’—and employment—‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’”
The Portrait of a Lady
The opening scenes of Henry James’s classic novel
The Future of Invention
“Everywhere we meet with the same state of facts. The labor-saving machine is entering every field, and its entrance is to the workman an irresistible command to go.”