You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In his column of Jan. 23 (“Why America often comes up short on presidential ...

Baltimore Sun journalist H.L. Mencken was no prophet, but that didn’t stop him from attempting to prophesy. On one occasion, a century ago, he predicted a moral disaster for the country. “On some ...

As they do about this time every year, the faithful came together on Saturday to celebrate the H. L. Mencken Day at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. I attended because I was curious to see how many were ...

Journalism, like youth, is a stuff will not endure. It is of the moment. "Tomorrow's fish wrapping." But there are a few journalists, by dint of great reporting or great style, whose work lingers.

H. L. Mencken, noted editor and author, recently returned from Palestine, which he visited during a Mediterranean tour. The following articles, of which this is the first, deal with his impressions of ...

A favorite quote of mine reads: “As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In his letter to Charles Green Shaw, ...

Tomorrow (September 12) is H.L. Mencken’s birthday. The “Sage of Baltimore” (pictured above) was born in 1880 and is regarded by many as one of the most influential American journalists, essayists and ...

Vincent de Paul Fitzpatrick III, a Loyola Blakefield English teacher who pursued a second career as a scholar of the newspaper critic and skeptic H.L. Mencken, died of a heart attack Saturday. The ...

You’d be challenged to find two literary figures more different than H.L. Mencken and Charles Bukowski. Mencken was a journalist, editor, author, and philologist based in Baltimore in the first part ...