The Dreyfus and Zola Trials
“For the French nation, the point of interest has been, not the treason, but the Jew.”
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
Strivings of the Negro People
“It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
The Awakening of the Negro
“It is through the dairy farm, the truck garden, the trades, and commercial life, largely, that the negro is to find his way to the enjoyment of all his rights.”
Mars (Part I)
The first in a four-part series about the planet’s physical conditions—and its possible habitation.
The Railway War
“It is idle to suppose that organized labor has been crushed, or that it will permanently submit to defeat. It is only a question of time when another outbreak will occur ... accompanied with violence, bloodshed, and fire.”
The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission
How Congress settled the disputed electoral count in the presidential election of 1876
Political Assessments in the Coming Campaign
“The clerk is bound to feel that there is some duress in the matter, when a committee of the association with which his immediate superior is closely connected requests him for campaign funds. He ought to be allowed to contribute or not, just as he sees fit.”
Emily Dickinson’s Letters
“‘Mr. Higginson, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive?’”
The United States Looking Outward
“Our self-imposed isolation in the matter of markets ... [has] coincided singularly with an actual remoteness of this continent from the life of the rest of the world.”
The New Talking Machines
A noted architect and writer commends Thomas Edison for his progress in developing the phonograph and predicts great things for its future.