September 27, 2026
The Fire Next Time: How James Baldwin Made Two Essays Feel Like a National Conversation
Published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time joined an intimate letter to his nephew with a searching examination…
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September 13, 2026
W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk: How Essays Made a Nation Look at Itself
Published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk joined history, sociology, memoir, music, and moral argument in…
September 13, 2026
The Federalist Papers: How Anonymous Essays Explained a New Constitution
Before the Constitution became the framework of the United States, it had to survive a public argument. In 1787 and…
September 13, 2026
James Baldwin’s Essays: How Personal Witness Became a Public Voice
In essays shaped by race, exile, faith, and belonging, James Baldwin showed how personal experience could become one of literature’s…