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Click here to read letters by Fred Kaplan, Michael Kazin, John Stauffer, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The following is Sean Wilentz's response to their letters. READ MORE >>

This article was originally printed on August 31, 1953 The New England Mind: From Colony to Province by Perry Miller READ MORE >>