Articles with keyword "Nineteenth century"
Conversation
The China Scholar
Jonathan Spence and NEH Chairman Leach discuss key moments in four hundred years of Chinese history.
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Whaling the Old Way
Life on a nineteenth-century whaler was thrilling, tedious, and often disgusting.
Curio
Wagner Free Institute of Science
The Exhibition Hall at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia, with its original systematic scheme of cherry-wood cabinets dating from the 1880s, provides a rare view of a Victorian scie
Curio
Telecommunications Triumphs
Staying up all night working on his code and such for the glory of France, Napoleon still had time for other long-lasting achievements—namely, his optical telegraph.
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Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.









