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Old City Archeologist, Composer Brings 19th-Century Murdered Woman’s Story to Life in New Opera
Old City composer and amateur archeologist Melissa Dunphy has composed a new opera, Alice Tierney, inspired by the story of a 19th-century woman whose murder at her home has remained unsolved for ...
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Growth of Cities
In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth ... the twentieth century. Cities became the location of most of American life: politically ...
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.
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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 ...
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Nellie and other 19th-century writers
She lived as a New York City matron until her ... "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects of life. Fuller traveled to Europe in 1846, becoming the ...
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Improving public health in the late 19th century
They refused to allow the city ... The late 19th century had seen great strides in public health provision and hygiene. However, there was still a lot of ill health. In 1900, average life ...
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Welsh and 19th century education
Welsh was actively discouraged in schools by means including the hated Welsh Not. The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots broke out across the country.