It is simply a desire for self-expression, a thirst to function more broadly and brilliantly than the general, obscure in origin but irresistible in force.

A 1921 review of E.M. Forster's classic novel

A critique of the Puritans, on the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival at Plymouth Harbor.

An excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois's 1920 book "Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil"

100 years ago today, the eighteenth amendment passed.

The triumph of War and Peace

A retrospective from 1916, ten years after the artist's death.

I do not say that we did wrong in repudiating the German ideals, I only want to know what our repudiation means. It seemed intuitive rather than deliberate.

American opinion, in its anxiety to find who struck the match that started the blaze of war, has tended to ignore the nature and quantity of the fuel.