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He described the air pollution caused by industrialization as “the storm cloud—or, more accurately, plague cloud” of the 19th ...

goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of ...

Jeremy Dauber’s “American Scary” traces the uncanny origins of the spookiest stories told in our young nation.

A trained pharmaceutical chemist, Lilly was an archetype of the dynamic and multi-talented 19th century American industrialist ... enabling women to effectively control their fertility and ...

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Katie Britt had a message for women: Be afraid ... I worry my own children may not even get a shot at living their American Dreams,” the Alabama Republican said in a wavering voice that seemed ...

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To facilitate wider access to this historical work, the authors have provided an extensive ... The text reflects the influential 19th-century psychophysiological model of melancholia as "mental ...