Echoes from the Age of Industry and Empire
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In the annals of American confidence games, few schemes rival the sheer audacity and scale of the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. It was a con that target...
When we hear the word "filibuster" today, we imagine a politician droning on for hours in an empty Senate chamber to delay a vote. But in the mid-19th...
In the summer of 1859, the border between the United States and Canada became the stage for one of the most audacious displays of human courage—and pe...
History is often written by the victors, but in the cutthroat world of 19th-century invention, it was frequently written by the survivors. When we thi...
When we imagine the earth splitting open and cities trembling in American history, our minds instinctively jump to the San Francisco earthquake of 190...
When we think of the tools of 19th-century imperialism, we typically imagine the Maxim gun, the ironclad warship, or the telegraph. We rarely imagine ...
History is usually measured in eras, epochs, and years. The Hundred Years' War, despite its name, dragged on for over a century. The Napoleonic Wars c...
On a crisp, cloudless Friday afternoon in March 1876, Mrs. Allen Crouch was outside making soap in the yard of her farm in Olympia Springs, Bath Count...