Echoes from the Age of Industry and Empire
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On a chilly night in March 1848, in a nondescript farmhouse in Hydesville, New York, the course of religious history was altered by a sound. It wasn't...
When we conjure images of the American Wild West, Hollywood has conditioned us to see a very specific archetype: the stoic, square-jawed white cowboy ...
In the mid-19th century, London was a city of unparalleled industry and wealth, yet it was also a city besieged by an invisible, terrifying enemy. Thi...
When we imagine the perils of living in 19th-century London, our minds usually drift toward the thick, choking pea-soup fog, the rampant spread of cho...
On a crisp October morning in 1869, two laborers were digging a well on William "Stub" Newell's farm in Cardiff, New York, when their shovels struck r...
In the mid-19th century, the British Empire was the undisputed master of the waves. Its navies mapped the globe, its trade routes spanned oceans, and ...
On the morning of August 27, 1883, the world got smaller, louder, and infinitely more terrifying. In the Sunda Strait, nestled between the islands of ...
On a crisp afternoon in September 1848, near the town of Cavendish, Vermont, a twenty-five-year-old railway foreman named Phineas Gage stood over a bl...