Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud 1844 | St. Petersburg, MO Whitewashing the Fence Tom Sawyer invents the hustle.More
Voices In Time Revolutions 1841 | Concord, MA All Things Renew Ralph Waldo Emerson on the transience of all things.More
Voices In Time About Money 1848 | London For Everything Else There’s MasterCard Charles Dickens on what money can’t buy.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 Food 1832 | United States Abundant, Not Delicate Life, liberty, and the pursuit of a second dinner.More
Voices In Time Lines of Work 1844 | Paris What Is Human Becomes Animal Marx’s theory of alienation.More
Voices In Time Energy 1849 | Berlin Shine Bright Like a Diamond Alexander von Humboldt goes under the sea.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 Book of Nature 1845 | Berlin Holy Communion Alexander von Humboldt stares into the image of infinity.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 Family 1840 | Paris Family Politics “Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight.”More
Voices In Time States of Mind 1845 | Edinburgh Second Life Thomas De Quincey peels back the layers of the brain.More
Voices In Time Music 1841 | Boston Words Do Not Suffice Margaret Fuller on the “all-enfolding language” of music.More