by Shania Ali | May 16, 2024
This exhibits artifact represents the $100,00 Reward ad, published by Webster & Southard in 1837, who also published The American Anti-Slavery Almanac between the years of 1836 and 1844, which was created to inform readers of the highly alarming situation of...
by Genna Arduini | Apr 24, 2024
Frances Sargent Osgood was a woman with a true talent in poetry. The still portrait “Frances Sargent Osgood”[1] illustrates her uniquely and powerfully. The picture was created by the artist Alonzo Chappel. Chappel was one of the many artists involved in the evolution...
by Pearl Puri | Dec 4, 2023
The Industrial Revolution was a transformative period spanning the late 18th to the 19th century. It brought about profound economic, technological, and social changes. Mechanized production, urbanization, and the emergence of factories characterized this era, driven...
by Marianna Iliadis | Dec 4, 2023
The fight for women’s suffrage was an ongoing struggle throughout American history and came after many years of effort by many different people. The right to vote did not come easy for American women, and this picture illustrates the continual opposition that women...
by Adana Derios | Jun 29, 2023
¹ ¹ ¹ ((Schneider, Eric B. 2017. “Children’s Growth in an Adaptive Framework: Explaining the Growth Patterns of American Slaves and Other Historical Populations.” Economic History Review 70 (1): 3–29. doi:10.1111/ehr.12484.)) A Mother’s Anguish² ((Schomburg...