What made the 19th century an interesting but tumultuous time? What technological, cultural and social changes influenced life then? Explore those issues in this story collection.
Life in America in 1898 is very different from life today.
Being a 19th-century cowboy, in America, meant hard work and often a lonely life. It would take between 2-3 months for cowboys to move herds of cattle...
While living among his parishioners, Van Gogh's perspective of the mining families changes; then he begins to draw them.
A Harvard janitor explores Webster's lab and find parts of Parkman's body.
Famine and poverty follow the failed potato crop of 1845.
Techniques the Ancient Hawaiians used to catch their fish with the materials they had.
This gives you various information about the native Hawaiians dance and music.
Stephen Austin and others from the American South come with their slaves to farm the Texas territory.
Poe writes "Annabel Lee" after the death of his wife and in the midst of severe drinking binges.
Anna and Douglass help escaping slaves on the Underground Railway and publish his abolitionist newspaper North Star.
"Cavorite" - a fictitious substance that allows flight - is found by Dr. Cavor, inWells'novel -The First Men in the Moon.
Illinois has a law allowing husbands to declare their wives insane and have them committed to an asylum.
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