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Was Edgar Allan Poe’s death predictable?

On June 30, 1849, the Boston newspaper “The Flag of Our Union” announced that a poem by Edgar Allan Poe

In his authoritative 1941 biography of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Hobson Quinn wrote that on October 3, 1849, an election

It was never clear what Edgar Allan Poe thought of slavery, although he grew up in Richmond (VA), a town

It is not everyday that a publishing company moves from New York to Baltimore. New York, and especially 5th Avenue,

In 1848 the American writer Edgar Allan Poe published a cosmogony “Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe.”

Human life is threatened by the anticipation of a war with the “buggers,” a technologically advanced, insect-like species that have

Edgar Allan Poe had a fascination for cryptography. And he was certainly not the only one, because in his time

Enron is a story about America’s largest corporate failure at that point in history—and a story about human tragedy. Enron’s

We thought this was a fitting essay written more than a half-century go that certainly applies to today’s political climate.

“I’ll be your surrogate–if you want.” I turned and looked at my sister, my baby sister, and stared. I then