pThe Man Without a Country is a short story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his days at sea. The protagonist Philip Nolan develops a friendship with the visiting Aaron Burr. When Burr is tried for treason that historically occurred in 1807 Nolan is tried as an accomplice.ampnbspppbrppHale published The Man Without a Country in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863 to bolster support for the Union in the North. In this first publication Hales name does not appear at the beginning or end of the story though it appears in the annual index at the end of that issue of the magazine. It was later collected in 1868 in the book The Man Without a Country and Other Tales published by Ticknor and Fields.ppbrppBy frequently mentioning specific dates and places and by using numerous contemporary references Hale grounded his story in a firm foundation of history and made the story seem like a record of actual events. In his 1893 and 1900 reminiscences Hale stated that to write the story of The Man Without a Country I had to make as careful a study as I could of the history of the acquisition of Louisiana by the United States.ppbrppAbout the authorppbrppEdward Everett Hale 1822 1909 was an American author historian and Unitarian minister best known for The Man Without a Country originally published in Atlantic Monthly in support of the Union during the Civil War. He was the grandnephew of Nathan Hale the American spy during the Revolutionary War.ppbrp