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 ...

Published in 1860, the book follows a quartet of bohemians in Rome, two European and two American, and stands as an insightful study of our national character.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) needs no champions today. He is entrenched in the American literary pantheon, esteemed, like his sometime friend Herman Melville, as a great precursor of 20th Century ...

Try this short quiz to see how many locations you remember from your reading. By J. D. Biersdorfer In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male ...