Posts Tagged ‘19th century’

Banking on America

By Daniel Schulman | 09/05/2017 | 0

Read an excerpt from a forthcoming book on the unlikely men who built Wall Street

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Awakenings

By Susan Jacoby | 12/07/2015 | 0

The advent of new religions in the 1800s led to fierce debates that persist today

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Jacob A. Riis: The Other Half

By Our Editors | 12/07/2015 | 0

A retrospective at the Museum of the City of New York

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A Strange Business

By Stephanie Bastek | 09/14/2015 | 0

A brief excerpt from James Hamilton’s new history of art dealership

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A Victorian Mystery No More

By Stephanie Bastek | 09/07/2015 | 0

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