Downton Abbey, a PBS drama about the English aristocracy and their servants during the Edwardian era, has become a cult hit in the United States. A great deal of its appeal is nostalgia for an elegant...
From The Idaho Statesman (April 30, 1911). Source: American Newspaper Archives Today’s woman has a wealth of information at her fingertips on how to get ahead at work. Books such as Nice Girls Don’t...
Photo credit: Courtsey of Kheel Center The Triangle Shirtwaist Company was a business that made shirtwaists, the common term of the day for women's blouses. The business, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac...
[This article by Donna L. Halper, Assistant Professor of Communication at Lesley University, first appeared in the February 2011 issue of The Readex Report.] I have been a media historian for several...
Jane Cunningham Croly (Source: The Bohemian Brigade Website) If Jane Cunningham Croly, the influential 19th-century journalist, were to speak at a public event today, possibly at a place similar to...
"Spirit of the Frontier" by John Gast (1872) Since the late 1800s, historians have debated the importance of the frontier on the development of American institutions and culture. For some, the Western...
