by Joyce Carol Oates from The New York Times Magazine / The Best American Essays 1986 Read at:  https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/16/magazine/on-boxing.html https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

by George F. Kennan from Foreign Affairs / The Best American Essays 1986 Read at:  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1985-12-01/morality-and-foreign-policy https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

by Anne Hollander from The New Republic / The Best American Essays 1986 Read at: https://www.anne-hollander.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Dressed-to-Thrill.pdf https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

by Stephen Jay Gould from Natural History / The Best American Essays 1986 Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

by JANE ADDAMS Featured on: The Best American Essays of the Century Read it: https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels2/pdf/10s/11/11-the-handicapped-bourne.pdf In “The Devil Baby at Hull-House,” Jane Addams...

by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Featured on: The Best American Essays of the Century Read it: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/fdscontent/uscompanion/us/static/companion.websites/9780199338863/whittington_updata/ch_8_chapman_coatesville.pdf In his essay “Coatesville,” John Jay Chapman...

by RANDOLPH BOURNE Featured on: The Best American Essays of the Century Read it: https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels2/pdf/10s/11/11-the-handicapped-bourne.pdf Essay Review: “The Handicapped” by RANDOLPH BOURNE Randolph Bourne’s...

by WILLIAM JAMES Featured on: The Best American Essays of the Century Read it: https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1911_11.html Essay Review: “The Moral Equivalent of War” by WILLIAM...

by JOHN MUIR Featured on: The Best American Essays of the Century Read it: http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/stickeen/the_story_of_a_dog.aspx Essay Review: “Stickeen” by JOHN MUIR John Muir’s “Stickeen”...

 by HENRY ADAMS Featured on: The Best American Essays of the Century Read it: https://www.bartleby.com/159/34.html Essay Review: “A Law of Acceleration” by HENRY ADAMS...