A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.

Why do some of us feel compelled to put words on paper or on screens? As a serial nonfiction author specializing in not particularly commercial American cultural history, I certainly do. I admittedly ...

Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...