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In The Summer of the Son of Sam Jeffrey Dean Foster remembers events from the long summer of 1977: New York City's historic blackout, t...

Alan Taylor's photo sets on boston.com are always good, sometimes staggeringly so. His two collections on the disputed election in Iran...

Famously, today is Bloomsday . I've devoured Ulysses three times, helped along by cribs and guides ( Gilbert's is still the best)...

Nearing the end of his European travels, Emerson wrote his wife Lydian on this date: June 16.         My last lecture is to-morrow, and i...

Years ago a local radio station took a fancy to Pachelbel's Canon. I heard it so often, and became so tired of it, that I sought music...

I have a friend who likes to keep me informed about the latest outrage or ironic event that's circulating on teh internets. The other...

On this date Emerson wrote his wife Lydian a letter about his return from Paris to London: London, June 8, 1848.         I came from Paris...

On or about 8 June 1848 Emerson wrote this in his Journals: June -.         I write "Mind and Manners in the Nineteenth Century,...

In 1943 Esther Bubley took these photos for the Farm Security Administration . Most come from Washington DC, her home base, but there are ...