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 Democracy 1834 | Moyamensing, PA Battleground State Things escalate quickly on Election Day.More
Voices In Time The City 1849 | San Francisco Mud and Mules William Tecumseh Sherman’s adventures in California.More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud c. 1850 | Mississippi River Warming Up the Mark Finding suckers on a Mississippi riverboat. More
Voices In Time Communication 1826 | Philadelphia Invention of Letters Seeking the means of civilization.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 Friendship c. 1840 | Mississippi River That Whole River to Ourselves Mark Twain lights out.More
Voices In Time Celebrity 1835 | Philadelphia Setting His Stage P.T. Barnum discovers there’s no business like show business.More
Voices In Time Intoxication 1842 | Springfield, IL Better than a Gallon of Gall Abraham Lincoln addresses a temperance society.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 Energy c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA A More Vindictive Energy Solomon Northup is pushed past his limits. More
Voices In Time The Future 1839 | Washington, DC Manifest Destiny The boundless future of American greatness.More
Voices In Time Magic Shows 1829 | Baltimore Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Edgar Allen Poe laments the march of science.More
Voices In Time Death 1849 | Cape Cod Natural Law Henry David Thoreau meditates upon a shipwreck. More