At the dawn of the 19th century, an Irish immigrant named Alexander Brown arrived in Baltimore and set up shop as a linen merchant. The firm that he founded would evolve into one of America’s most ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Harvard University professor and author Reed Gochberg discussed the proposal to conduct the taxidermy of Benjamin Franklin and what this proposal ...
The struggle of the 'mill girls': class consciousness in early 19th century New England - Ian Schlom
I wrote this article while I was studying both the history of the Lowell and Lawrence Working Girls and the first volume of Capital by Karl Marx. In writing it, I was exploring the categories which ...
Who was the Butterfly Man? New Orleans author and curator Cybèle Gontar loves an art history challenge, and the identity of the early 19th-century cabinetmaker known only as the Butterfly Man has ...
BELLEVUE — Visitors to Historic Lyme Village, located in Ohio’s “Firelands,” will get a fascinating peek at the life of the early Ohio settlers who first arrived in the region from New England in the ...
As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...
The rural cemetery movement of the early 19th century brought some of the most beautiful and iconic public spaces in America. One of the earliest was our own Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. While ...
Whenever schoolchildren would tour the Reading Area Firefighters Museum in south Reading, volunteers would have to show them a photo of a representative of the earliest firefighter apparatus. No ...
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