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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Issue February 2012

Bread and the Newspaper

In 1861, an Atlantic editor captured the anxious mood on the home front.… More »

Issue February 2012

My Hunt After the Captain

An account of the author’s frantic search for his wounded son, who lived to become a Supreme Court justice… More »

My Hunt After the Captain

Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War-torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice… More »

Bread and the Newspaper

In the early months of the Civil War, Holmes captured the anxious mood on the home front… More »

The Stereoscope and the Stereograph

"Form is henceforth divorced from matter. In fact, matter as a visible object is of no great use any longer, except as the mould on which form is shaped. Give us a few negatives of a thing worth seeing, taken from different points of view, and that is all we want of it"… More »

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Every man his own Boswell.… More »

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