Articles with keyword "Nineteenth century"
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A Forgotten Hero in a Forgotten War
Thomas Pearson repelled American forces, driving Canada toward nationhood.
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Birthday Party Brouhaha
Mark Twain's infamous toast rocked the sensibilities of Boston's Brahmin establishment.
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Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas
Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.
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Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
A segmented miner’s lunch pail from the nineteenth century was, above all, practical, with stacking compartments for stews, pie, cobbler, as well as a cup on top for coffee, which was heated over a ca
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German American Heritage Center
The zither, commonly found in southern Germany and other parts of alpine Europe, produces the “oompahs” so typical of German folk music.
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Revolt of the Masses
From Mass Moments, a website (www.massmoments.org) that is a daily almanac of significant events in the state’s history. It can also be received as a podcast or RSS feed.
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Wild Time in the Poconos
From The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume I, May 1832–April 1833, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, in which the aristocratic naturalist and
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Capital Gains
Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C.,
