George Keller

 Timothy Shay Arthur wrote many popular moral stories in the nineteenth century. In ...

President Woodrow Wilson won the 1916 re-election largely because he had thus far kept th...

With this famous speech, Daniel Webster joined the nineteenth-century debate over slavery...

After criticizing US involvement in WWI, Eugene Debs found himself testifying in court fo...

On June 16, 1918, union leader Eugene Debs delivered this speech at the Ohio State Social...

President Woodrow Wilson delivered this address on January 22, 1917, a few months before ...

With this 1914 address, President Woodrow Wilson declared his intentions for the US to re...

Woodrow Wilson became the 28th president of the United States when he beat out President ...

President Woodrow Wilson delivered this address to the 1914 graduates of the US Naval Aca...

The period known as the Avignon Papacy began in 1309, when Pope Clement V relocated the s...

In 1520, Martin Luther debated Catholic theologian Johann Eck in Leipzig—and lost. ...

With this 1990 speech, American politician William Jennings Bryan presents a compelling a...

In this sermon, Reverend Hiram Mattison discusses the argument for Christian opposition t...

Congregationalist minister Harvey Newcomb wrote countless volumes of spiritual advice for...

In this story, the narrator is recovering from an illness in the company of Lucy Latimer,...

Timothy Shay Arthur was an important moral force in nineteenth century. In “The Pow...

Mr. Winkleman thinks he ought not to have to watch his tongue in his own home. Yet one mo...

This is a charming children’s story penned by the great literary legend Oscar Wilde...

“Jabberwocky” is one of the most well-known nonsense poems in the English lan...

In the middle of a church service, a man is struck by a sense of dread. As impassioned or...

Delirium, jealousy, and passion run free in Robert Chambers’ short story “The...

In “The Street of the Lady of the Fields,” horror writer Robert Chambers take...

From his Washington Park studio, Scott can see the sinister watchman of a nearby church. ...

This tale follows a group of art students roaming around the Latin Quarter of Paris. Bohe...

In a departure from traditional horror writing, “The Street of the First Shell&rdqu...

A stranger, lost while hunting in the moors of Brittany, meets the mysterious Demoiselle ...

Wandering the streets of Paris, the impoverished artist Severn happens upon a stray cat. ...

With “The Prophets’ Paradise,” acclaimed horror writer Robert Chambers ...

While sitting on his private piazza, the narrator imagines life at an idyllic home in the...

When an American sea captain sees a Spanish slave ship in distress, he reaches out with a...

On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale struck and sunk the whaling ship Essex, stranding the...

In 1517, the great reformer Martin Luther wrote to the Archbishop of Mainz objecting to t...

This story, first published in 1855, takes place in 1920’s New York City. Chambers ...

D.L. Moody dedicated his life to revival preaching and famously established the Moody Bib...

Oscar Wilde upholds his reputation for literary wit from the first line of this 1887 shor...

When Army lieutenant Philip Nolan rashly proclaims that he never wants to hear about the ...

President Woodrow Wilson entered World War I reluctantly, and he aimed to be strategic an...