Smithsonian Magazine3d
The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Jenna Deep
Jenna Deep is an undergraduate at Dickinson College, double majoring in archaeology and history. Her historical interests ...
PBS7y
Whitman, Emerson, and 19th Century Literary America
Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day as one of the pre-eminent thinkers, writers and lecturers in America. History has only ...
PBS5y
Nellie and other 19th-century writers
Horace Greeley, editor of the "New York Tribune" brought Fuller onto his staff to write literary criticism in 1844, making her the first woman in America ... the Nineteenth Century," which argued ...
THE WEEK8y
A rare glimpse of African-American life in the 19th century
The Week is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. © Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West ...
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Lady Killers – The lives and crimes of eight 19th-century women
In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...
National Geographic news7y
The ugly election that birthed modern American politics
Native American nations continued to hold their ... His Name in LightsActive campaigning for office came to dominate 19th-century politics. Andrew Jackson’s supporters may have carried this ...