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Articles with keyword "Nineteenth century"

Portrait of Aaron Burr in 1802

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Burr versus Jefferson versus Marshall

The president accuses his fomer vice president of treason and tussles with a Supreme Court justice.

Dust jacket, Nights Out

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Tasteful Pleasures

Corner Houses Were an Anchoring Presence in Cosmopolitan Soho.

Dust jacket for The Edge of the Woods

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"Whose Woods These Are . . . "

Iroquois traveled far and wide.

Poster of Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin crossing the Ohio River.

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The First Great American Novel

It was Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Lev Tolstoy, 1908

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Done with Tolstoy

Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.

Passenger pigeons

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Drawn From Nature

John James Audubon captured a disappearing world in his paintings.

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High Thinking and Low Living

How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.

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A Summer Scene

While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans

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In Defense of Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain.

letter press type

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Do-It-Yourself Language

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.