From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Disneyland, the concept has represented both the experimental and the conventional. In the...
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After the Civil War, Rose Herera wanted more than freedom – she wanted justice. Early in 1865,...
A virtual tour of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Originally published by Lapham’s Quarterly,...
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Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
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Through the trauma of war, and by learning from his mistakes, the first president gained empathy and...
The first president was indispensable to our early republic, precisely because he didn’t see himself as indispensable....
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One of the most important moments in the story of Prince Siddhartha is when he reached spiritual...
The city of Babylon was given hegemony over Mesopotamia by their sixth ruler, Hammurabi. Introduction Babylonia, named for...
Take a tour through Melbourne with a Greek lens and discover the rich Hellenic influences that shape...
As the need for ranch workers has dwindled, the iconic status of cowboys has continued to grow....
At the turn of the 20th century, three Hawaiian cowboys arrived in Wyoming to compete in a...
The O.K. Corral is a human-sized, emotionally satisfying revenge drama that affirms our thirst for justice. On...
Washington Irving leaves Gotham to explore the frontier. As he entered New York City on May 21,...
What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. In the 1970s,...
Behind every manuscript map lies an individual’s hand. Originally published by the Harvard Map Collection, republished with...
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe was buried in an unmarked grave, but now she’s a YouTube sensation. More than...
Jack Kerouac’s study of Buddhism started in earnest in 1953 and is traditionally believed to have ended...
On the author’s bicentennial, American readers could use a dose of his unique ability to fuse realism...
Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom, 09.26.2017, Newberry Library, republished with permission for educational,...
Abandoned when the larger Etruscan towns struggled to meet the demands of their growing urban population and...
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Examining how topographical views were often the result of artists touring in Britain and beyond. The lawyer Sir...
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century. His discoveries have...
States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here’s what a Jeffersonian analysis of...
To twenty-first-century Americans, the case against slavery may appear self-evident. However, nineteenth-century opponents of slavery faced a...