Voices In Time Food 1724 | Block Island Principle Versus Inclination Ben Franklin rationalizes his seafood dinner.More
Voices In Time Education c. 1900 | New Haven, CT Social Clearinghouse Owen Johnson calls colleges “splendidly organized institutions for the prevention of learning.”More
Voices In Time Comedy 1913 | Los Angeles Charlie Chaplin Invents Himself The tramp picks up his bowler hat and cane for the first time. More
Voices In Time Memory 1903 | New York City All Ideas Are Secondhand Mark Twain reassures a young Helen Keller.More
Voices In Time Rule of Law 2010 | Washington, DC Money Talks John Paul Stevens unpacks freedom of speech.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 Revolutions 1914 | Philadelphia Premeditated Discords “If you were to sit on the keyboard, you would produce as much harmony as Schoenberg’s music possesses.”More
Voices In Time About Money 1748 | Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin’s Bottom Line Money, more or less, is always welcome.More
Voices In Time Ways of Learning 1901 | Princeton, NJ Equal Education Woodrow Wilson on what makes America special.More
Voices In Time Technology 1841 | Lowell, MA All Things Considered A factory worker sets low expectations.More
Voices In Time Disaster 1889 | St. Louis, MO Water Over the Dam The “law of bursting reservoirs.”More
Voices In Time Sports & Games 1928 | Chicago Learning from the Master Norman Maclean gets a billiards lesson from America’s first Nobel Prize–winning scientist.More
Voices In Time Trade c. 1849 | Platte River Enough Is Enough The Pawnee don’t want what the white man has to offer.More
Voices In Time Night 1862 | Port Royal, SC In the Same Boat Charlotte Forten Grimké hears of an escape by night.More