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This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...

Reading early American handwriting -- Guidelines for reading old documents -- Abbreviations and contractions -- Terms -- Numbers and Roman numerals -- Dates and the calendar change -- Sample alphabets ...

We had been sponging on Europe far direction instead of developing our own, and Europe had been handing out nice little packages of spiritual direction to us. But then Europe fell into disorder and ...

When the English king granted Virginia a royal charter in 1624, the Church of England (the Anglican Church) became the established church of the colony. Tax monies supported the clergy and the church.

The American symphony more truly begins with John Knowles Paine (1839-1906) — who was Boston's pre-eminent composer before Chadwick came along. Paine was schooled in Berlin and sounds like it. His two ...

These early American history legends may be conventional wisdom, and some are even taught in school, but they definitely are not facts. The following myths originated from poems, stories that changed ...

Revolutionary War history is filled with heroes and villains, and which is which depends on which side of the Atlantic you were sitting. Revolutionary War history is filled with heroes and villains, ...

John M. Murrin, Princeton professor of history, emeritus, a scholar of American colonial and revolutionary history and the early republic, died May 2 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in ...

Introduction: the experience of early American technology -- Technology in early America: a view from the 1990s -- The exhilaration of early American technology: an essay -- Lost, hidden, obstructed ...