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Selection of 19th-Century American Art, Including Many Hudson River School Artists, Heads to Auction

An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City. The ...
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At home in nineteenth-century America : a documentary history / Amy G. Richter

Introduction: At home in nineteenth-century America -- The emergence of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal : Excerpt from Henry Lee and Mary Lee, Letters and journals: with other family letters, ...

Program: LNL Summer: how 19th Century Americans thought about hair

The thickness, colour and texture of facial and head hair showed character traits about men and women, it was believed in 19th century America. The assessments were imbued with judgements about race ...
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The Edinburgh companion to nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing / edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers

Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...
Connecticut Post

What America’s divided and tumultuous politics of the late-19th century can teach us

(THE CONVERSATION) People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the ...
The Economist

The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft

SOME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America First ...
The Boston Globe

Are you too easily distracted? 19th-century Americans could relate.

In the category of innovations that make us impatient and harried, the smartphone joins the train, the telegraph, and the pulpy novel. Picture, for a moment, Henry David Thoreau. He is at his cabin, ...

These 17 Small Towns Are America’s Best-Kept Secrets

Beyond American metropolises lie several small towns with unique charm and stories. These not-so-popular destinations offer ...
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Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

The Nineteenth Century: American and European Art

This exhibition features outstanding nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures from the Museum’s permanent collection. Gifts of major art collections by James Bowdoin III in 1811 and Harriet Sarah ...
USA Today

From debutante balls to modern dances, nostalgic photos tell America's prom story

Prom season marks the rite of passage that teens have celebrated since the late 19th century – but that one special night wasn't always about the over-the-top 'promposals,' dresses, flowers, ...