Voices In Time Scandal 1872 | Washington, DC First in War, First in Nepotism Charles Sumner decries “a president who makes his great office a plaything and perquisite.”More
Voices In Time Philanthropy 1908 | Washington, D.C. Saving the Forest for the Trees Theodore Roosevelt wonders what’s in a name. More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud c. 1850 | Mississippi River Warming Up the Mark Finding suckers on a Mississippi riverboat. More
Voices In Time Energy c. 1910 | Beach City, CA Field of Dreams Upton Sinclair on a million-dollar oil rush. More
Voices In Time Energy 1752 | Philadelphia Lightning in a Bottle Benjamin Franklin conducts an experiment.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 About Money 1896 | Chicago INRI “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!”More
Voices In Time Foreigners c. 1840 | New Bedford Strange Bedfellows Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. More
Voices In Time Fashion 1870 | Providence, RI Convention Wisdom “What kind of reformers be you, with goose wings on your head?”More
Voices In Time Book of Nature 1836 | Concord All Things Are Moral Ralph Waldo Emerson sees the unity of all things.More