Virginia. Recent collections of interpretive essays include: Rowe, John Carlos, ed., 1996. New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams. Cambridge University Press. . These essays situate The Education in its historical context, especially in light of U.S. foreign policy and of views about education and gender prevailing at the time it was written. Decker, William Merrill, and Earl N. Harbert. Henry Adams & the Need to Know, Massachusetts Historical Society Studies in American History and Culture, No. 8. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society;Charlottesville: Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2005. External links 1918 non-fiction books Literary autobiographies American autobiographies Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning works