Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' exposes how morality becomes control and virtue turns into tyranny. Through Hester ...

Besides writing The Scarlet Letter (1850) and other famous works, Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for studying transcendentalism and hanging out with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel ...

Brock Hatton (Nathaniel Hawthorne) and Tyler Galindo (Herman Melville) in Melville & Hawthorne. Credit: Photo by Aaron Alon They met at a picnic in Massachusetts’ Berkshire mountains in August 1850 – ...

NORTH ADAMS — In July 1838, Nathaniel Hawthorne struck out on the road, traveling west. His destination? North Adams. He arrived in North Adams — then the north village of Adams, as the communities ...

It’s not “The House of the Seven Gables,” the namesake of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel. But it’s selling for seven figures. A Salem home where the 19th century literary great once lived is on the ...

The Federal-style house on the corner of Botts Court and Chestnut Street in Salem is an architectural work of art that comes with an interesting history – at one point it was the home of renowned ...