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100 years ago, the Social Gospel movement pushed to improve workers’ lives – but also to promote its vision of Christian America
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A Heritage Watch Brand Debuts 3 Watches by Its New Team
The management of Urban Jürgensen, a 19th-century maker, now includes the celebrated independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen.
The history of the sash, a football shirt status symbol
There's just something special about a football shirt with a sash design. The origin of the trend? That depends on who you ...
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Queer then, Queer now: Apple TV’s Dickinson as a time-traveling love letter to LGBTQ+ youth
What happens when a 19th-century Emily Dickinson becomes a Gen Z rebel? You get a Pride anthem disguised as a period drama.
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In Days Gone By: 1880s Immigration and the Medeen Family
Foreword: In previous articles regarding O.C. Sorensen and Leonard “Luder” Lund, who both immigrated to the U.S., I ...
The kimono is more than an artefact and more than clothing. It is a concept artists will make their own
A new exhibition from the National Gallery of Victoria brings together over 70 fabulous garments of exquisite craftsmanship.
Designer Spotlight: How Cheyney McKnight Uses Ancestral Design Techniques To Educate And Inspire
As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.
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Trove of 19th century climate data rediscovered
At some point in the mid-19th century, more than 100 academies — precursors to today’s pubic and private high schools — from Hudson in Columbia County, to Flatbush in Brooklyn, as well as Utica, ...
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Historian to speak at library on life of 19th-Century enslaved woman in Belleville
Historian, professor, and author Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon will deliver June 26 special, free presentation on the Quinte region’s Black history ... Footsteps in Mid‑19th Century Black Toronto.” ...
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The growth of a century: as illustrated in the history of Jefferson county, New York, from 1793-1894
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Mackinac Island, Michigan, is a 19th-century escape from the contemporary world
Fraught with conflict beginning pre-Revolution, many of the island's structures date back to the 18th and 19th centuries ... the island has a history dating back more than a century when Jerome ...