Voices In Time Comedy 1921 | Baltimore H.L. Mencken on Balder and Dash A newspaperman takes down the enemy: “He writes the worst English I have even encountered.”More
Voices In Time Family c. 160 BC | Rome Doting Uncle The difference between a father and a tyrant.More
Voices In Time Philanthropy 44 BC | Rome Bread Is Better Than Circus Give lavishly and generously. 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 Medicine 1624 | London Riddling Distemper John Donne meditates on man’s miserable condition.More
Voices In Time Revolutions 1787 | Paris The Tree of Liberty Thomas Jefferson tends the garden of revolution.More
Voices In Time The Future c. 1795 | London Game Changer The telegraph writes, reads, and sends news fifty miles in an hour.More
Voices In Time States of Mind c. 1840 | St. Ogg’s Styles of Learning George Eliot watches a lesson take root (or not).More
Voices In Time The City 1708 | London Burial Grounds Christopher Wren requests a graveyard shift.More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud 1973 | New York City Funhouse Mirror Susan Sontag makes a discovery. More
Voices In Time Revolutions 1937 | Berlin Adolf Hitler Writes History “Each racial species must preserve the purity of the blood that God has given it.”More
Voices In Time States of War 1861 | Virginia Recording an Inkling of Civil War Walt Whitman sees the blackness of the human heart.More
Voices In Time Luck c. 85 | Shangyu Natural Causes “Reward and trust is good fortune, punishment and suspicion, bad.”More
Voices In Time Book of Nature 1865 | Brooklyn Parade Music Walt Whitman’s paean to town and country.More