The complete online text of Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...

In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...

WE ALL KNOW BY NOW that Judy Chicago is undaunted by big subjects and big undertakings. Save for her gender, it's always been easy to imagine her as a Renaissance master, supervising fresco decorations in churches and palaces. Her touring Dinner Party (1974-1978),...

Visitors to the Holocaust Museum that opened in April in Washington enter by walking into a large, dark elevator. On the ride up to the fourth floor, recorded voices of soldiers who liberated a concentration camp describe what they discovered. Then the elevator...