Voices In Time The City c. 1835 | London Never Can There Come a Fog Too Thick Charles Dickens on mud, fog, and the law.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 Communication 1841 | Equatorial Guinea Drum Circle The talking drums of West Africa.More
Voices In Time Food c. 1830 | Maryland Blood-Bought Luxuries Frederick Douglass compares the food of slaves with that of their masters.More
Voices In Time Music 1841 | Boston Words Do Not Suffice Margaret Fuller on the “all-enfolding language” of music.More
Voices In Time Arts & Letters 1849 | New York City American Idol Fighting over Shakespeare at Astor Place.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 Swindle & Fraud 1844 | St. Petersburg, MO Whitewashing the Fence Tom Sawyer invents the hustle.More
Voices In Time Youth 1841 | Concord, MA Godlike Independence Ralph Waldo Emerson on educating the self. More
Voices In Time Democracy 1835 | Paris Paper Trail Alexis de Tocqueville examines the role of the media in a democracy.More
Voices In Time Intoxication 1833 | Maryland Crowd Control “The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.”More
Voices In Time Friendship 1842 | Hoddesdon Direct Mail Sarah Stickney Ellis advises that everything is not copy.More
Voices In Time Friendship c. 1840 | Mississippi River That Whole River to Ourselves Mark Twain lights out.More