"introduces a newly identified Civil War-era flag inscribed by Herman Melville with his name and New York City address, a material artifact that expands our understanding of the author’s commitment to national identity....Melville acquired the flag no later than the period surrounding the outbreak of war, flying it at Arrowhead before relocating to New York, where he added the ink inscription and continued to use it."
Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
Friday, July 17, 2026
Project MUSE - Melville’s Star Spangled Banner
Just published in the June 2026 Leviathan, this important essay by Steven Olsen-Smith
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