Among Harvard's most precious possessions are the poems which were written in commemoration of her sons who fell in the war, and in the New England Magazine for June is an article on "Harvard ...

How much food could reasonably be grown in a region like New England, and what good would it do? The idea that we should even try to grow all our own food locally is frankly preposterous. By 1790, ...

He had always thought that to be a "mere storyteller" in New England demanded too much of his imaginative will. Despite a fair success with his first novels, The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The ...