Voices In Time Arts & Letters 1843 | London Outline and Shadow “Do you know anything about that wonderful invention of the day, called the daguerreotype?”More
Voices In Time Foreigners c. 1840 | New Bedford Strange Bedfellows Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. More
Voices In Time Death 1849 | Cape Cod Natural Law Henry David Thoreau meditates upon a shipwreck. 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 Friendship 1842 | Hoddesdon Direct Mail Sarah Stickney Ellis advises that everything is not copy.More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud 1832 | Prairie du Chien Lie, Cheat, and Steal The white men do not scalp the head, they do worse—they poison the heart.More
Voices In Time The Future 1835 | Paris Furor Teutonicus Heinrich Heine predicts a meteoric rise for Germany.More
Voices In Time Memory c. 1832 | Middlemarch The Past Also Rises George Eliot finds a character lost in regret.More
Voices In Time About Money 1836 | Washington, DC Antebellum Kapital John C. Calhoun calls out the hypocrisy of the North.More
Voices In Time Death 1842 | Philadelphia Plague Party Edgar Allan Poe welcomes Death to the party.More
Voices In Time Politics 1849 | Concord, MA Declining the Honor Henry David Thoreau quietly declares war with the state.More
Voices In Time Comedy 1830 | Eafield Non-Apology A wild and drunken night leaves Charles Lamb worse for wear but unapologetic about his actions.More
Voices In Time Intoxication 1843 | London Under the Influence John Elliotson witnesses a mesmerizing surgery.More