The complete online text of Fire Worship (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...

Steve Fainaru reported from New York, and Jill Zuckman reported from Virgina. NEW YORK -- As those with invitations gathered privately inside the big Baroque building yesterday, several hundred people crowded behind the steel barriers set up outside St. Ignatius Loyola Roman...

Doug Ardito still remembers how his eyes popped when he was taken backstage as a teenager to hang out with Aerosmith and the J. Geils Band at the Worcester Centrum. To a Boston-area youth growing up in the '80s, that was pure heaven. ...

LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads...