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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Harvard Oration,” John Quincy Adams]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From John Quincy Adams: Speeches &#038; Writings “A Westerly View of The Colledges in Cambridge New England,” engraving hand-colored with water colors, 1767. Drawn by Joshua Chadwick (c. 1721–1783) and engraved by Paul Revere (1734–1818). At the bottom is the legend “A Harvard Hall | B Stoughton | C Massachusett [sic] | D Hollis | [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[The Ringing Legacy of &lt;em&gt;1776&lt;/em&gt;: Laurence Maslon on an Unlikely Musical Triumph Drawn Directly from American History]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[For the Fourth of July holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we’re pleased to present this essay by Laurence Maslon, editor of LOA’s two-volume American Musicals edition and Kaufman &amp; Co.: Broadway Comedies, about 1776, the hit 1969 musical that brought the Founders to life on stage, nearly fifty years before [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker,” Paul Laurence Dunbar]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century The new bookstacks in the Thomas Jefferson building of the Library of Congress when it was completed in 1897, the year Paul Laurence Dunbar was hired as an assistant librarian. Photographer unknown. (Library of Congress) Born in Dayton, Ohio, seven years after the end of the Civil [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“O Albany”: Novelist William Kennedy on His Great Cycle of the City]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12383</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE ﻿ Monday, June 22—William Kennedy is to Albany what Joyce is to Dublin and Faulkner to Mississippi, a fictional alchemist who transforms his native place into novels at once deeply evocative of their setting and movingly universal in their human resonances. In The Albany Trilogy, just out from Library of America, three of [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[How Library of America Helped Shape the American Literary Canon: LOA President Max Rudin’s 2026 Whiting Awards Keynote]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12370</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Library of America has long been an enthusiastic supporter of the Whiting Awards, given annually to ten exceptional emerging writers. At this year’s ceremony, held in New York City on April 15, LOA president and publisher Max Rudin delivered the keynote address, reflecting on our history and mission, and offering his thoughts on how our [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Forthcoming: Spring 2027]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12338</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[What is the past telling us about today? That’s a question we ask often at Library of America, and in our lineup of books for Spring 2027, we present a range of perspectives engaged with what has come before and its echoes. A pathbreaking historical novelist reimagines the myths of America in his early fiction, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[In Memoriam: Gordon S. Wood 1933–2026]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12364</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[It is with deep sadness that we learn of the death of historian Gordon S. Wood at the age of 92. Wood was a longtime friend and advisor to the Library of America who generously shared his incomparable expertise and shepherded five volumes to print, including the landmark two-volume collection The American Revolution: Writings from [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“America’s Founding Son”: Author &#038; Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12337</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[John Quincy Adams was the great visionary of America’s post-founding era, a writer and orator of consummate skill who reframed the origins and principles of the republic for a new generation. It’s fitting then that as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of independence, that Adams should be the focus of renewed attention. One new [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Poet-Prophet of American Democracy: Walt Whitman’s Vital Political Prose]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12335</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Tuesday, June 2—Walt Whitman’s outrage at American politics and politicians was surpassed only by his passionate faith in democracy’s future. Both his anger and his hope fire his visionary prose writings on democracy, gathered for the first time in a new Library of America paperback edited by acclaimed political commentator and literary critic David Bromwich. [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” Margaret Fuller]]></title>
                <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12327</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 1880, oil on canvas by American artist Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827–1889). Margaret Fuller never traveled to Louisiana, but during the winter she wrote “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain” her mother was visiting Margaret’s two brothers in New Orleans. Image: Artvee. “We have been delighted by the sight [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“He Breathes, He Writes”: The Voluminous Memory and Deep Empathy of &lt;em&gt;Ironweed&lt;/em&gt; Author William Kennedy]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/he-breathes-he-writes-the-voluminous-memory-and-deep-empathy-of-ironweed-author-william-kennedy/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12306</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[The work of novelist William Kennedy marks the union of encyclopedic knowledge, built over ninety-eight years spent soaking up the city of Albany, and a profound empathy for human experience in all its forms, from the underworld of gangsters, gamblers, and hustlers to the heights of power and politics. As Joyce is to Dublin or [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Flowering Judas,” Katherine Anne Porter]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12317</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories &#038; Other Writings Street in Mexico, 1922, oil on canvas by American painter Walter Pach (1883–1958). Francis M. Naumann Fine Art via Smithsonian. Between 1922 and 1960, Porter wrote a total of 26 stories (three of which she insisted on calling “short novels”). Then, in 1963, she published her [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[An Archdruid’s Exit: John McPhee &#038; David Brower]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/an-archdruids-exit/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12226</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[David Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club and the founder of numerous conservationist organizations, was an indomitable advocate for the environment, and the magnetic subject of John McPhee’s 1971 nonfiction book Encounters with the Archdruid. Below, ecological activist and writer Tom Turner reflects on his long collaboration with Brower, first at the Sierra [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Terror, Hope, &#038; Exodus: The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/terror-hope-exodus-the-testimony-of-henry-adams-freedman/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12222</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Tuesday, May 5—In March 1880, an extraordinary American traveled to Washington, DC, to testify before a Senate committee investigating the exodus of formerly enslaved people from the Southern states. Vividly describing the nightmarish violence and exploitation inflicted by “the very men who held us slaves,” the Louisiana freedman Henry Adams spoke of Black [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The Grist of the Gods,” John Burroughs]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Detail from a hand-colored photograph of John Burroughs sitting on the steps of his cabin, Slabsides, from a photographic postcard printed c.1907–09 by Valentine &#038; Sons Co., London, UK. (eBay) A Day with John Burroughs, a mesmerizing nine-minute film shot in 1919 using a new motion-picture technique called [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France,” Henry James]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From Henry James: Collected Travel Writings: The Continent An American ambulance in the commune of Sacy, south of Reims, France, c. 1914–17, by Parisian photographer J. Patras (about whom little is known). Courtesy University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. In late 1914, as the war raged in Europe, Henry James spent much of his time providing support [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Registrations Open | Reading America: Acclaimed Authors on Great Writing That Resonates Today]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/registrations-open-reading-america-eight-acclaimed-authors-on-classics-to-read-now/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12187</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Starting this June, Library of America presents an eight-part series of online classes featuring leading contemporary authors on the LOA writers that resonate deeply with them and have something vital to tell us at this moment. Each session pairs an eminent novelist, historian, or critic with works and writers they find especially resonant: Annette Gordon-Reed [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/voices-from-a-century-of-struggle-writings-of-the-jim-crow-era/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12192</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Tuesday, April 7—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans challenged white supremacy in word and deed in a prolonged struggle to create a better, more just nation. Join Tyina L. Steptoe, editor of the new two-volume LOA edition of writings from the Jim Crow [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Remembering Paul B. Royster: 1953–2026]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12174</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Library of America mourns the passing last week of Paul B. Royster of Lincoln, Nebraska. Paul began his long career in scholarly publishing with Library of America as an assistant editor, 1980–82, as production manager, 1982–87, and as chief financial officer and director of production, 1987–93. His knowledge, dedication, and enthusiasm made an immeasurable contribution [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Handsome, Angry, &#038; Funny as Hell: Geoff Wisner on George Templeton Strong, Civil War Diarist Extraordinaire]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Opinionated, acerbic, cranky, and often hilarious, George Templeton Strong is perhaps the greatest American diarist of the nineteenth century. A patrician lawyer and man about Manhattan, Strong penned millions of words about daily life in New York City between 1835 and 1875, encompassing everything from the smallest household matters to events of national importance: slavery, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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