Voices In Time Lines of Work 1828 | North Carolina A Case of Sexual Harassment Avoiding the predations of one’s enslaver.More
Voices In Time Arts & Letters 1849 | New York City American Idol Fighting over Shakespeare at Astor Place.More
Voices In Time Education 1827 | Hartford, CT Trivial Pursuit Catharine Beecher decries education for women as “irregular, superficial, and deficient.”More
Voices In Time Death 1849 | Cape Cod Natural Law Henry David Thoreau meditates upon a shipwreck. More
Voices In Time Ways of Learning c. 1830 | Baltimore Taking the Ell Frederick Douglass learns the ABC’s.More
Voices In Time Medicine 1847 | Tennessee Civilization and Its Discontents Dorothea Dix pleads for the creation of a new institution.More
Voices In Time Friendship c. 1840 | Mississippi River That Whole River to Ourselves Mark Twain lights out.More
Voices In Time About Money 1819 | New York City The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Washington Irving bursts a speculative bubble.More
Voices In Time Sports & Games 1846 | Brooklyn Playing Ball and Base Walt Whitman praises a whole new ball game.More
Voices In Time Democracy 1834 | Moyamensing, PA Battleground State Things escalate quickly on Election Day.More
Voices In Time Rule of Law 1831 | Washington, DC This Land Is Our Land John Marshall makes a decision about the Cherokee Nation’s home.More
Voices In Time Book of Nature 1830 | Washington, D.C. Removing the Indians Andrew Jackson defends the price of progress.More