If there was a "Most Tragic President" contest, Abraham Lincoln would be the undisputed winner—but Franklin Pierce would also be in the running. Pierce's three sons all died young. After 11-year-old ...

CONCORD, Mass. – It was a Hawthorne family reunion, for the dead and the living. About 40 descendants of Nathaniel Hawthorne gathered in Concord on Monday to watch as the remains of his wife and ...

It was a meeting of a gothic genius and a political magus. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist from Salem, Mass., and Abraham Lincoln, the politician from New Salem, Ill., didn’t speak to each other — ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was on a remarkable run in the summer of 1852. He had previously won acclaim for his short tales, but a succession of novels that included The Scarlet Letter in 1850, The House of ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne added the “w” to his last name because one of his ancestors was John Hathorne, a Salem witch trial judge, and he wanted to distance himself from that legacy. Raised in a Calvinist ...

Nearly two centuries after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s graduation from Bowdoin College in 1825, the author’s work remains very much in the spotlight and has provided inspiration for such contemporary ...

From summer pop-ups to gallery mainstays, these are the twelve exhibitions our editors are most excited to catch from the Vineyard to the Berkshires and everything in between.

Try this short quiz to see how many locations you remember from your reading. By J. D. Biersdorfer In “The Sinners All Bow,” Kate Winkler Dawson brings a podcaster’s instincts to a 19th-century murder ...