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Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1860–1865. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs)

Essay

The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s America

Nathaniel Hawthorne is the strange American author who has never been out of fashion; since his death in 1864, his stories and novels have resisted the tides of taste, canon...

Glossary Term – Event

Franklin Pierce elected president

Democratic nominee Franklin Pierce was elected president over Whig candidate General Winfield Scott.

Glossary Term – Person

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), a graduate of Bowdoin College, studied law before entering politics. After serving in the New Hampshire legislature (1829–1833), he was elected to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (1833–1837) and then to the US Senate (1837–1842). Pierce resigned in 1842 and resumed the practice of law, serving as New Hampshire’s district attorney. Pierce subsequently entered the military during the Mexican-American War, attaining the rank of brigadier general. In 1852, Pierce became the Democratic nominee for...

Glossary Term – Person

Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott (1786–1866), “Old Fuss and Feathers,” was the associate of every president from Jefferson to Lincoln. Scott entered the military in 1809 and distinguished himself during the War of 1812 at the battles of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane. He went on to serve in the Black Hawk War and the campaign against the Seminole and Creole Indians. After mediating an Anglo-American dispute over the Canadian border in 1838, Scott was appointed general-in-chief of the US Army in 1841. Due to his successes in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848),...