CONCORD, Mass. – It was a Hawthorne family reunion, for the dead and the living. About 40 descendants of Nathaniel Hawthorne gathered in Concord on Monday to watch as the remains of his wife and ...

If there was a "Most Tragic President" contest, Abraham Lincoln would be the undisputed winner—but Franklin Pierce would also be in the running. Pierce's three sons all died young. After 11-year-old ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Bowdoin College Class of 1825 is revered as the greatest in the school’s ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Members of the Hawthorne Community Association gathered Oct. 25 for the ...

It was a meeting of a gothic genius and a political magus. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist from Salem, Mass., and Abraham Lincoln, the politician from New Salem, Ill., didn’t speak to each other — ...

In 1933, when Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas had lunch with the first lady in the White House, the conversation turned to the conditions of the working class, and Eleanor Roosevelt said to ...

From summer pop-ups to gallery mainstays, these are the twelve exhibitions our editors are most excited to catch from the Vineyard to the Berkshires and everything in between.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) needs no champions today. He is entrenched in the American literary pantheon, esteemed, like his sometime friend Herman Melville, as a great precursor of 20th Century ...