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By Stephen Hemrick on April 29, 2013

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Emerson’s Manifesto, Thoreau’s Nature

Everyone agrees that “Self-Reliance” is an indictment of mindless conformity and a challenge to think for oneself. But it has rarely been recognized as one of history’s first manifestos for people to be honest about their sexual nonconformity.

Essays

Painted Angels and Tainted Fruit

By William Benemann: Stephen Crane began a novel to be titled “Flowers of Asphalt,” about a country boy who comes to New York to pursue his dream, only to end as a street hustler dragged down by drugs and syphilis.

Essays

1928: Out Came Hall and Woolf

By Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande: Two revolutionary novels by queer women were published within months of each other, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, and both deeply challenged the gender conventions and sexual mores of their time

Essays

Leyendecker the Sly

By Ignacio Darnaude: The Arrow Collar Man, the first systematic branding campaign in U.S. history, caught lightning in a bottle by leading the common man to believe that buying these inexpensive collars and shirts would give him an air of civility and wealth.
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