Voices In Time Medicine 1847 | Tennessee Civilization and Its Discontents Dorothea Dix pleads for the creation of a new institution.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 Communication 1846 | Paris New Media A disorienting encounter with French technology.More
Voices In Time Politics 1849 | Concord, MA Declining the Honor Henry David Thoreau quietly declares war with the state.More
Voices In Time Rivalry & Feud 1835 | Paris Refraction Infraction Edgar Allan Poe finds an unexpected antagonist.More
Voices In Time Intoxication 1833 | Maryland Crowd Control “The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.”More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud c. 1850 | Mississippi River Warming Up the Mark Finding suckers on a Mississippi riverboat. More
Voices In Time Arts & Letters 1831 | Paris Writing in Stone Victor Hugo explains the language of architecture.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 Ways of Learning c. 1830 | Baltimore Taking the Ell Frederick Douglass learns the ABC’s.More
Voices In Time Rivalry & Feud 1848 | Philadelphia My Kingdom for a Farce Edwin Forrest lights a feud with a hiss.More
Voices In Time Music 1841 | Boston Words Do Not Suffice Margaret Fuller on the “all-enfolding language” of music.More
Voices In Time Lines of Work 1839 | Stonegappe Hands Full Charlotte Brontë overworked and overwhelmed.More
Voices In Time Family c. 1837 | London That Is the Question Darwin weighs the pros and cons of married life.More