Articles with keyword "eighteenth century"
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Impertinent Questions with Margaret A. Hogan
Margaret A. Hogan discusses the letters and lives of John and Abigail Adams.
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The Early American Salon
In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.
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The Orphan Scholar
Philip Lampi's lifelong quest to document elections of the early Republic.
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Ungoverned Passion
Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe.
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Baskerville Hounded
From The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765–1810 by Thomas F. Bonnell, published by Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Impertinent Questions with William M. Reddy
William M. Reddy has made a career of demonstrating how honor, love, shame, fear, and desire operate as historical forces.
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Mr. Manners
At George Washington’s request, Alexander Hamilton offers the newly elected president advice on proper etiquette in a letter dated May 5, 1789.
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The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle
A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.