The name “Adonis” has long been associated with the idea of beauty and with Classical myth. His legend, however, starts long before our present conceptions of the ancient world. Phoenicia, a land roughly equivalent to modern-day Lebanon, was a farming community. Its people lived by the seasonal calendar, feeding themselves with the result of difficult …
As a citizen of the United States, do I have the right to massacre a large group of my fellow citizens with my legally purchased AR-15? Of course not. However, over the last two decades, a number of individuals have done exactly that; the settings of each incident now existing infused with terror (consider the …
“What’s resulted in the decades since is supposed to be an opportunity for White people and their institutions to redress their perpetual erasure of the roles of Black folks in building this country on our backs… What we’ve been given, however, is a rote acknowledgment of the same five people — Rosa Parks, Martin Luther …
Did Abraham Lincoln love his wife? Or was he instead forever emotionally faithful to the memory of his first true love, a woman by the name of Ann Mayes Rutledge? Is this another American legend, like that of Paul Bunyan? The truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle, but the way that this story …
Every February, American children from all over their country are treated to the dusty facts regarding the sixteenth president of the United States — that of good ol’ Abe Lincoln, he of simple beginnings and Civil War stewardship. The guy was tall; he freed the slaves; he was killed while attending a theater performance. What …
In 1971, author Wallace Stegner published his novel Angle of Repose, which went on to earn a Pulitzer Prize. The book is widely considered to be one of the best novels of all time; it is simultaneously a slice of life from the American Victorian West, a novel focused on environmental concerns, and a love …