Voices In Time Philanthropy 1841 | Concord, MA Withholding the Wicked Dollar Ralph Waldo Emerson doesn’t care what people think of him.More
Voices In Time Water c. 1843 | Lafourche Parish, LA Safe Passage Solomon Northup swims to freedom.More
Voices In Time Sports & Games 1834 | Oklahoma Watching Lacrosse George Catlin describes a Choctaw game.More
Voices In Time Music 1841 | Boston Words Do Not Suffice Margaret Fuller on the “all-enfolding language” of music.More
Voices In Time Death 1849 | Cape Cod Natural Law Henry David Thoreau meditates upon a shipwreck. More
Voices In Time Family c. 1835 | New York City Henry James Settles an Argument Father knows best when it comes to marriage.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 Intoxication 1842 | Springfield, IL Better than a Gallon of Gall Abraham Lincoln addresses a temperance society.More
Voices In Time Religion 1835 | United States Another Form of Hope Alexis de Tocqueville identifies a principle of human nature.More
Voices In Time States of Mind c. 1843 | Atlantic Ocean Inside the Whale Herman Melville measures the skull of a whale.More
Voices In Time Energy c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA A More Vindictive Energy Solomon Northup is pushed past his limits. 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 Death 1842 | Philadelphia Plague Party Edgar Allan Poe welcomes Death to the party.More
Voices In Time Book of Nature c. 1846 | Walden Pond Survival of the Fittest Henry David Thoreau observes the kingdom of the ants. More