Smithsonian Magazine1d
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 ...
Medscape8d
A Mysterious 19th C. Primer on Surviving a Medical Career
An enigmatic early-1800s author (or is it 1974?) writes defining principles on how to swim with literal sharks and in the ...
Nature3mon
The nineteenth century roots of 'everything is everywhere'
As early as 1546, physician Girolamo Fracastoro had argued that germs had extraordinary capacities of dispersal. The mid-nineteenth-century refutation of spontaneous generation depended on the ...
RTÉ Ireland4d
Meet the 'quack lawyers' who were at large in 19th century Dublin
Caricatures and satirical prints lampooning the legal profession for its chicanery were hugely popular in Georgian Dublin ...
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Fire destroys 19th century home under renovation
NORWOOD, Ohio (WXIX) - Fire roared through a 19th-century home under renovation in Norwood early Thursday, causing the roof to collapse. The house at Hudson and Floral avenues has been vacant ...
National Geographic news19d
The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
However, these early victories did not consist of men ... suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed, they defied ...