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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 ...
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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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 ...
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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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19th century advances in medical knowledge
At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...