What Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter Reveals About Harvard’s History
Today, the scarlet “A” is easily recognized as the iconic literary symbol linked to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel “The Scarlet Letter.” For a younger generation, it might be the 2010 film “Easy A,” starring Emma Stone. In colonial Massachusetts, though, it carried a far more sinister meaning. In 1694, under the Massachusetts law titled “An […]
