Ginger was used in nineteenth-century medicine to treat everything from scurvy to cholera to impotence to lead poisoning. And, as in TR Hummer’s poem “Whitman’s…
“…So important is an elegant, easy handwriting…that the aspirant for a position in a counting-room or office cannot hope for success therein without it….” – Gaskell’s…
Well-worn sentimental phrases and verses make Civil War love letters by soldiers no less poignantly heartfelt. The letters of ordinary Civil War soldiers can be rough-cut:…
A late nineteenth century advertisement for condoms reveals that safe sex and contraception were considered as important then as they are now. A flyer advertising…
Atlantic Monthly has featured “50 most powerful images of the Civil War,” and while their images are indeed moving, they left out this one…. From…
“A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. Virginia Road, and a Black Driver”…. Dickens, 1842, on the way from DC to Richmond. Today Dickens’ description…