In 1842, a court in Lancaster, England, convicted a young lawyer, George Baxter Grundy, of forging payment, and promptly sent him to serve a fifteen-year sentence in Bermuda, “beyond the seas.” The ...

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Introduction: historical Latinidades and archival encounters / Rodrigo Lazo -- The errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and migration's intention / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Historicizing ...

For 125 years now, learning and giving have been at the heart of Nineteenth Century Club’s mission. And it’s something universally appealing about those core values, according to new Executive ...

In the decade leading up to 1920, suffragists in Texas won a series of dramatic victories for women’s voting rights. They organized to impeach a governor, convinced his replacement to partially ...

More than fifty years before it was isolated as a drug, Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamed up cocaine. In the early years of the nineteenth century, the poet was increasingly dependent on opium, a ...