February 1866

Articles

• The Freedman’s Story

  An escaped slave tells his story—including his account of his violent showdown with slave-catchers in Pennsylvania.

  William Parker

• Three Months Among the Reconstructionists

  In 1865, an Illinois-based journalist wrote a scathing report on post-Civil War life in the South

  Sidney Andrews

• Behind the Freedman's Story

  Who was "E.K."? Did William Parker really write The Freedman's Story? The story behind the story of escaped slave and militant black activist William Parker

  Sage Stossel

• Passages From Hawthorne’s Note-Books (Part II)

  Personal musings from the renowned American author

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• English Opinion on the American War

  W. M. Rossetti

• Two Pictures

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Origin of the Gypsies

  George Washington Hosmer

• Court-Cards

  Charles J. Sprague

• A Landscape Painter

  Henry W. James

• Riviera Di Ponente

  James Freeman Clarke

• Doctor Johns

  Donald G. Mitchell

• The Chimney-Corner for 1866: Ii. The Transition

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Griffith Gaunt; Or, Jealousy

  Charles Reade

• Herman; Or, Young Knighthood

• History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe

• An Address on the Limits of Education, Read Before the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Vida De Abran Lincoln, Décimosesto Presidente De Los Estados Unidos, Precedida De Una Introduccion

• Richard Cobden, the Apostle of Free Trade: His Political Career and Public Services

• The Human Hair, and the Cutaneous Diseases Which Affect It: Together With Essays on Acne, Sycosis, and Cloasma

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