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 Youth 1841 | Concord, MA Godlike Independence Ralph Waldo Emerson on educating the self. More
Voices In Time Family 1840 | Paris Family Politics “Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight.”More
Voices In Time Freedom 1837 | East Boylston, MA Moral Beings Angelina Grimké on the rights of women.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 Democracy 1835 | Paris Paper Trail Alexis de Tocqueville examines the role of the media in a democracy.More
Voices In Time The Future 1839 | Washington, DC Manifest Destiny The boundless future of American greatness.More
Voices In Time Discovery 1849 | Downe Names in Vain Darwin trapped in “a perfect maze of doubt on nomenclature.”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 Food 1838 | Auteuil Procuring Impossibilities Easy entertaining with the Count of Monte Cristo.More
Voices In Time Music 1841 | Boston Words Do Not Suffice Margaret Fuller on the “all-enfolding language” of music.More