This set of portraits from the 1890s provides a very good lesson: These people posed in the overly serious manner of their time, but they were playful too, and that side of them broke through easily enough, as we see here. The people of the past were ... Read more
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This elderly gentleman is making a card for his wife, which illustrates something written by the great historian, Will Durant: The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that and old man has for his old wife. Or, as Oliver Wen ... Read more -
This is the spot, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where 5,000 people rallied spontaneously to free a man named Joshua Glover. Glover was an escaped slave, whom US Marshals had arrested near Racine, Wisconsin and transported to the court house and prison tha ... Read more