This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. After his death, James Garfield got the full Horatio Alger treatment.

In many a school auditorium, a theater kid could be spotted sitting cross-legged with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, surrounded by peers who had just belted their way through the entire Hamilton ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. No matter how great a title's gameplay may be, there's always the ...

Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes about small business, personal finance, technology, and more. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced ...

Jason Blum doesn’t scare easily. When the famed film producer began making horror movies on shoestring budgets more than a decade ago, he had every reason to believe he’d fail. “Everyone used to ask ...

I founded my company nearly two decades ago. As a bootstrapper, it was initially just me, but soon enough we grew to a dozen people, then a few dozen, then a hundred, and so on. In the early days, I ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

People sometimes conflate bootstrapping with starting a small business, but the reality is that most bootstrappers have huge ambitions—they just prefer to go it alone. Bootstrapping means maintaining ...

In October 2023, Soni Mehra left her Big Tech job to focus on her home-decor business. Becoming a full-time entrepreneur has come with changes and challenges, she said. Instead of making a steady ...

The day a new multiplayer game like Call of Duty launches is massive for the community. So, if an issue is preventing Black Ops 6 from launching on Steam, obviously it’s a problem players want to ...