Literary critic and historian Daniel Aaron, "who helped preserve the nation's cultural heritage as a co-founder of the nonprofit Library of America and who pioneered the multifaceted academic field of American studies," died April 30, the New York Times reported. He was 103. Aaron wrote several books, including The Americanist; Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism; The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War; and Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives. In 2010, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal as a scholar and as the founding president of the Library of America.
