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At the turn and beginning of the 20th century, life was changing rapidly for Americans. People were moving ...

Editor's note: Today as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of man's first steps on the moon, our thoughts ...

40 years ago today on July 20, 1969, a decade of preparation and centuries of imagination culminated in ...

Image from postaletrice What qualities and attributes constitute true manliness? It's a hard question to ...

Editor's note: This is a guest post by Brad Miner. Mr. Miner is the author of The Compleat ...

Once a very popular and inspiring ideal, the concept of the self-made man has fallen into disfavor in our ...

We previously began a series of posts on the lost art of letter writing. In hopes of resurrecting this ...

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Jonathan W. Thomas. Mr. Thomas runs the world's largest Anglophile ...

George "Old Blood and Guts" Patton was a four star general who ably led American troops during World War II. ...

During the month of June 2009, The Art of Manliness ran a series of posts called "30 Days to a Better Man." ...

Fear can be a good thing.  It’s a biological instinct that prevents us from doing stupid things that ...

Independence Day is this Saturday here in the United States. In honor of it, we present "A Nation's ...

Since I've graduated law school, I've been taking a look at the debt Kate and I have accumulated during our ...

When you think fondly about your boyhood days, you probably think about the time you spent playing. While we ...

I read an interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times where the editors asked 8 artists to draw a ...

They are the battle cries of moms and elementary school teachers all over the world: "Sit up straight!" and ...

It’s something all of us have imagined at one time or another. What would it be like to die and attend our ...

When we think about moments that epitomize manliness, we often think of the captain going down with the ...

Editor's note: You've probably noticed that Wayne Levine has become a regular contributor to AoM; he writes ...

Ever since many of us were little kids, we were told to never talk to strangers. While this was done out of a ...