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Voices In Time

1844 | Philadelphia

Dust to Dust

Edgar Allan Poe considers burial before death.More

Voices In Time

1872 | Downe

Body Language

Charles Darwin on the physical expressions of fear. More

Voices In Time

1915 | Cambridge, MA

Regret the Errors

“There are no big cats who catch little boys who cry.”More

Voices In Time

1866 | St. Petersburg

Torment Unforeseen

The wages of guilt. More

Voices In Time

1904 | Felixstowe

Bad Moon Rising

The power of frightening.More

Voices In Time

1897 | Atlantic Ocean

Heads Above Water

“Many a man ought to have a bathtub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.”More

Voices In Time

1915 | Washington, DC

Hate Speech

Woodrow Wilson on the poison of disloyalty.More

Voices In Time

1913 | Oyster Bay, NY

Class Act

On feigning fearlessness. More

Voices In Time

1917 | Vienna

Fears Founded and Unfounded

Sigmund Freud on real fear versus neurotic fear.More

Voices In Time

1916 | Somme

Attack

Going over the top. More

Voices In Time

c. 355 BC | Athens

Expectation Management

“We shall not fear things that we believe cannot happen to us.”More

Voices In Time

c. 1050 | Forres

Ghost Story

Enter Banquo.More

Voices In Time

1816 | Berlin

Night Vision

The Sandman is coming.More

Voices In Time

c. 725 BC | Kingdom of Judah

Fire Alarm

“The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard.”More

Voices In Time

1921 | Igloolik

Inheritance

All-encompassing fears. More

Voices In Time

279 BC | Thermopylae

Panikon

Madness seizes the barbarians.More

Voices In Time

1840 | Paris

Home Insecurity

The cloud hanging over the American brow.More

Voices In Time

1942 | Cambridge, MA

Scared to Death

Fear in the mind, fear in the body.More

Voices In Time

1640 | London

Mutual Aid

Thomas Hobbes considers the weight of men’s fears.More

Voices In Time

1900 | Chicago

Unwritten Law

Ida B. Wells on lynching.More

Voices In Time

1757 | London

Shock and Awe

The terrible and the sublime.More

Voices In Time

1670 | Voorburg

Suspicious Minds

Why are men superstitious?More

Voices In Time

1995 | Chiapas

What Are They Afraid Of?

Notes from a neighbor.More

Voices In Time

2017 | United States

Invasions of the Body Snatchers

ICE speaks the language of fear.More

Voices In Time

1927 | Providence

Weird Tales

H.P. Lovecraft on the literature of fear.More

Voices In Time

1907 | Turkey

Fear Not

What does it feel like to be frightened?More

Voices In Time

1621 | Oxford

Harm Done

Many are called, few are chosen. More

Voices In Time

c. 1970 | United States

Mother’s Little Helper

For all your anxieties, known and unknown.More

Voices In Time

c. 1930 | Bogotá

Devil’s Advocate

Imagining hell.More

Voices In Time

1782 | Gnadenhütten, OH

Lambs to Slaughter

William Dean Howells describes a massacre.More

Voices In Time

44 BC | Rome

Love Lost

“Our republic we have lost forever.”More

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