"Dr. Johnson and His Father" From 30 More Famous Stories Retold, 1905 By James Baldwin SCENE FIRST It ...

Call of the Wild By: Robert W. Service Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to ...

Photo courtesy of the Powers family. Editor's note: This is a guest post by Marcus Brotherton, the ...

Who was the greatest Deputy U.S. Marshal of the Old West? Wyatt Earp? Wild Bill Hickok? How about ...

From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories, 1900 The President was bothered to death by those persons who ...

"Foundations" From Traits of Character, 1899 By Henry F. Kletzing Don't risk a life structure upon a ...

George Lorimer, an editor at the Saturday Evening Post, published a series of fictional letters in that ...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Yasser El Hadari, an AoM reader from Egypt. If you've been ...

When it comes to manly characters in literature, my thoughts always return to one man: Atticus ...

The Bridge Builder An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, ...

While traveling in France, author William J. Lederer was so touched by the actions of an American Navy Sailor ...

Harry Houdini. “The Handcuff King.” “The Man Who Walked Through Walls.” Master ...

A Psalm of Life By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What the heart of the young man said to the ...

Aesop's fables might seem like "kid's stuff," and certainly their short nature and anthropomorphic characters ...

"Heroic Education" From Courage by Charles Wagner THE old stoics had this saying among themselves, Nihil ...

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Andrew Ratelle. "For every one of us, living in this world means ...

Editor's note: The following excerpt —"The Power of Personal Influence" — comes from Self ...

Opportunity By Edward Rowland Sill This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:- There spread a cloud of ...

We talk a lot about gentlemanly behavior and comportment on The Art of Manliness. I think it's a trait we ...

Yellow By: Robert W. Service One pearly day in early May I walked upon the sand And saw, say half a ...