Rough at the edges: Along the coast of Norway to Russia
In 1891 the Norwegian goverment challenged the nation’s ship owners to start a regular, year around post and parcel service
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Edgar Allan Poe still alive and well in Baltimore (Part One)
Weathered etchings on Edgar Allan Poe’s grave (Lauren Molander) The first of a two-part interview with Poe scholar Richard Kopley
Read moreEdgar Allan Poe and Isolationism: His mysterious years in New York
After leaving Richmond in 1837, Edgar Allan Poe moved to New York City to pursue a position in journalism. Little
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Baltimore Post-Examiner goes ‘Back to the Future’ with a nod to Charles Dickens
The first volume of Bentley’s Miscellany—a 636-page literary publication printed in London in 1837—comprised a collection of short stories, poems,
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