Two verses in Walt Whitman’s poem that would ultimately be titled “I Sing the Body Electric” evolved with Walt’s life, and with his parents’ lives. In…
Though domesticated for millennia, cats and dogs didn’t enjoy the indoors much until relatively recently…. Until the mid-19th century, cats and dogs allowed indoors were…
“The very act of imbibition through a straw prevents the gluttonous absorption of large and baneful quantities of drink….” Supposedly, the nineteenth century’s popular mixed…
Maintain and mend was the rule in America through the nineteenth century. Wealthy people passed down worn, damaged, or out-of-fashion clothes, furniture, and dishes to…