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Voices In Time

1899 | New York City

Call to Arms

Rudyard Kipling takes up the white man’s burden. More

Voices In Time

1891 | Tahiti

Paul Gauguin Reborn

“All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine.”More

Voices In Time

c. 860 | China

License and Registration

Traveling in medieval China.More

Voices In Time

1846 | London

Answering to the Charge of Infidelity

Frederick Douglass exposes the hypocrisy of American Christianity.More

Voices In Time

1874 | Dakota Territory

The Indian Stays for Supper

Charles Eastman’s new way of life. More

Voices In Time

1922 | London

Land Grab

George Sydenham Clarke demurs on the question of a Jewish homeland.More

Voices In Time

1701 | London

A Mongrel Half-Bred Race

For Englishmen to boast of generation / Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.More

Voices In Time

c. 33 | Jerusalem

Love Thy Neighbor

Getting along, New Testament–style.More

Voices In Time

c. 2500 BC | Sumer

A Woman’s Touch

She showed him the things a woman knows how to do.More

Voices In Time

c. 150 | Athens

Internal Divisions

Lucian in the belly of the whale.More

Voices In Time

2013 | Lampedusa

With the Refugees

Mattathias Schwartz follows would-be immigrants. More

Voices In Time

1786 | Paris

Custom of the Country

Thomas Jefferson’s advice on bringing one’s slave to France.More

Voices In Time

c. 1811 | Missouri Territory

White-Man Giver

Tecumseh’s unification crusade.More

Voices In Time

1782 | London

Melting Pot

What makes an American?More

Voices In Time

1892 | Tehran

A Secret Garden

Gertrude Bell provides a glimpse of the private lives of Persians.More

Voices In Time

c. 1611 | Prospero’s Island

Claims Dispute

Who is the true lord of the land?More

Voices In Time

1860 | Beijing

Wild for Plunder

Charles George Gordon laments the destruction of Chinese palaces.More

Voices In Time

c. 1272 BC | Plains of Moab

Utter Destruction

Sinners in the hands of an angry god.More

Voices In Time

1873 | Canandaigua, NY

Of Men, for Men, by Men

Susan B. Anthony breaks the rules because the deck is stacked.More

Voices In Time

c. 1640 | Wendake

In One of Dante’s Rings

John Boyden sizes up the spiritual differences between Jesuits and natives.More

Voices In Time

1848 | London

Common Property

Marx and Engels on the cosmopolitanism of the bourgeoisie.More

Voices In Time

1908 | Philadelphia

A Light Unto the Gentiles

An American love story.More

Voices In Time

c. 1930 | Harlem

Mistaken Identities

Langston Hughes solves a mystery. More

Voices In Time

c. 1840 | New Bedford

Strange Bedfellows

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. More

Voices In Time

c. 1967 | New York City

On Writing Home

Jamaica Kincaid experiences the shock of the new.More

Voices In Time

1601 | London

At Capacity

Elizabeth I banishes the blackamoors.More

Voices In Time

1796 | Philadelphia

Steering Clear

George Washington embraces American isolation.More

Voices In Time

1948 | Washington, DC

European Union

George Kennan’s step-by-step guide to managing European affairs.More

Voices In Time

1954 | Milledgeville, GA

Making the Introductions

Flannery O’Connor presents a stranger. More

Voices In Time

1190 | York

Surrounded and Besieged

The persecution of English Jews.More

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