Articles with keyword "Nineteenth century"
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Father Secchi's Dim View
From Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science, Renée Bergland’s NEH-supported biography of one of America’s first professional astronomers.
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Curiously Reckless Rebels
An exquisitely fine pencil drawing hanging in a bedroom at Tudor Place in Georgetown in the nation’s capital has a tragic tale to tell that is lacking in some basic details.
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Darwin the Young Adventurer
The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.
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Ain’t That the Truth
Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.
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Living Off the Landscape
How Thomas Cole and Frederic Church made themselves at home in the Hudson River Valley.
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Brass Hip Ornament
Within the culture of the Benin Empire, which thrived from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century in what is now southern Nigeria, only the oba, or sacred monarch, had the authority to
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Voici the Valley
When most of us hear talk of Acadians, we think of Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline and of the British forcing French-speakers from eastern, maritime Canada in the mid eighteenth century.
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Love and Hate during Wartime
In the Lizzie Gilmore collection of family letters, available through Community and Conflict, a new digital archive devoted to life in the Ozarks during the Civil War, the formalities of correspondenc