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The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...
3 Exercises a 19th-Century Bodybuilding Icon Swore By – and Why They Still Work
How: Lie back on the floor holding a barbell above you with a shoulder-width, overhand grip. Breathe in and lower the bar slowly until it skims the middle of your chest. Push the bar back to the ...
Under the banks' towers, Frankfurt's humble water houses bring the city together
Frankfurt has become Germany's financial capital, known for the country's only high-rise skyline. The humble “Wasserhäuschen, ...
Stuck in the past: Trump tariffs and other policies are dragging the U.S. back to the 19th century
The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...
In Germany’s financial capital, traditional water houses bring people of all classes together
Frankfurt has become Germany’s financial capital, known for the country’s only high-rise skyline. But look closer to the ...
Rochester Institute of Technology3d
‘Rochester History’ explores deaf spaces in 19th-century New York
A partnership between RIT history department, RIT Press, and the Rochester Public Library relaunched the Rochester History ...
A different economic outlook
It’s not an area in which I have any expertise but I’ve found myself thinking about trade and resources, and what it could ...
The New York Times25d
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors ... The manuscript was Miss Banning’s life’s work, and she yearned to see it published. But it ended up in a drawer at the New York State Museum in ...
Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer
In the late 19th century, a Scottish immigrant named Williamina Fleming ... However, Pickering later recounted in Fleming's obituary that "Mrs. Fleming began work at the Harvard Observatory in 1881.
The 19th-century painting that saved Bill Murray’s life: “I was ready to die”
His First footsteps on stage Bill Murray was cast into a bout of depression. It was only saved when he gazed upon one 19th-century painting. It saved his life.
Enslavement, re-indenture and prosperity: the rise of indentured workers
This is the first column in a series of dedicated new research in commemorating the indentured experience in South Africa ...