Snow Day
January 06, 2014
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe I am as giddy as a child at the prospect of a snow day. Others fret about climate change when they see -40 windchills...
Showing posts with label 19th Century U.S. History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 19th Century U.S. History. Show all posts
Io Saturnalia!—The Roots of Christmas
December 23, 2013
Steven Cromack Emperor Constantine I. Detail of the mosaic in Hagia Sophia. Christmas is a fascinating holiday, and one that has been ...
Was Santa White?
December 20, 2013
Heather Cox Richardson Pundits have sunk their teeth into a fight recently over whether or not Santa was white. After Fox News commentator M...
Ice Boxes vs. Refrigerators
December 12, 2013
Jonathan Rees I’ve written previously here about the good and bad sides of suddenly being able to access the world’s biggest libraries thro...
Why Were Tariffs Politically Important in Late 19th-Century America?
December 09, 2013
Heather Cox Richardson After the Civil War, new industries brought Americans not just new products, but also more spending money and l...
The Slave Trade, 1885: George S. Boutwell Writes Home About His Legal Cases
November 21, 2013
Brian Bixby George S. Boutwell’s letters to his daughter Georgianna, “Georgie,” were not just devoted to politics. He wrote about the other ...
Gossip, 1885: George S. Boutwell Writes Home About Washington Politics
November 20, 2013
Brian Bixby Recently, I had the delightful opportunity to read some letters that hadn’t been seen in at least eighty years. The letters were...
What the Gettysburg Address Means for America Today
November 18, 2013
Heather Cox Richardson On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a national cemetery at Gettysburg. When the batter...
More on Assassinations (Because Randall Got Me Started)
November 14, 2013
Heather Cox Richardson Cartoon of Charles Guiteau by Miriam Leslie, 1881. Today is a curious anniversary. On November 14, 1851, Herman Melvi...
“To a Sailor’s Eye A Monstrous Creature": The Salvage of the CSS Georgia
November 12, 2013
Heather Cox Richardson Last week the U.S. Navy began the process of salvaging the CSS Georgia . There were two Confederate ships that bore t...
Ice, Ice Baby
November 06, 2013
Jonathan Rees When I titled my book Refrigeration Nation , I had to fight the urge to try out any number of bad puns first. Somehow doing th...
The Elections of Grover Cleveland
November 04, 2013
Heather Cox Richardson Grover Cleveland , by Anders Zorn, 1899. On November 4, 1884, voters elected Grover Cleveland, the reform-minded gove...
Trick or Treat?
October 31, 2013
Halloween postcard, ca. 1900-1910. Kevin Kenny Halloween is a Celtic festival, imported to America, and later re-exported to Europe, pumpkin...
Newport Stories: Cornelius Vanderbilt II, or, On Whether a Child of Privilege Can Also Be a Horatio Alger Story
October 23, 2013
[Here we present the first installment of a series of posts by Benjamin Railton that originally appeared on his blog AmericanStudies .] Like...
Grand Banquet at Delmonico's, New York City, 1880
October 14, 2013
Henry Voigt In the preface of his 1894 cookbook The Epicurean , Delmonico’s chef Charles Ranhofer cited seventeen grand banquets as being pa...
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