"The word essay we have from the French, in which tongue it signifies a trial or probation" (Thomas Culpeper, 1671).
We will sample glorious essays by America’s best writers spanning more than 200 years, including Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Henry James, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mark Twain, James Thurber, Willa Cather, and Zadie Smith. Welcome aboard!
