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Benjamin Franklin set out to conquer climate in the colonial era
An Unintended American Revolution,” Harvard professor Joyce E. Chaplin reveals how this relatively modest invention ...
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How 19th-Century Guidebooks Shaped the Way Visitors Saw New York
"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ephemera.
Queer theatre in the 19th century was a place of codes, cross-dressing and blackmail
The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.
Trump’s Flawed Claim that Tariffs Made the U.S. Its ‘Richest’
In arguing for more tariffs on goods imported to the United States, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the ...