Uncle Abner plate the Spanish-American War (1898)

the Spanish-American War (1898)

the refuge they find in each other

The original letter is in the collections of our Manuscript Division

illustrated introduction to the wonders of astrology

A number of essays focus in particular on African American engagements with visual culture

Uncle Abner plate the Spanish-American War (1898)First published in 1918, this collection of tales of Abner's investigations, told by his nephew and chronicled by the prolific Melville Davisson Post, was hailed as the most important volume of American crime fiction since the work of Edgar Allan Poe. The titular Uncle Abner is a man with extraordinary powers of observation, a close reader of the Bible, and a towering code of morality, and he does not shy from taking matters into his own hands when