John Nelson

Portrait of Thomas Wentworth Higginson with a mustache and side-parted hair.

Features | November-December 2024

Thomas Higginson: Abolitionist, Feminist, and Emily Dickinson's Mentor

Brief life of an activist for freedom: 1823-1911

Nuttall during his time at Harvard (the circa 1828 portrait is attributed to J. Whitfield)

Features | May-June 2015

Brief life of naturalist Thomas Nuttall, by John Nelson

Brief life of a pioneering naturalist: 1786-1859

Henry Beston (in a Coast Guard uniform) on the Outer Beach, Cape Cod, in the early 1920s

Features | September-October 2013

Brief life of nature writer Henry Beston Sheahan, by John Nelson

Brief life of a nature writer in a machine age: 1888-1968