19th century
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#otd Looking for the “Lonely Orphan Girl”
On Saturday January 17th, 1885, George Madden and Erasmus Wilson of the Pittsburg Dispatch decided to…
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#otd The Nellie Bly story begins…
On January 14th, 1885, The Pittsburg Dispatch (yes, Pittsburgh was Pittsburg back then) published a column…
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Dec 14th: The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner
“On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known…
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Dec 12th: The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris
“In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and…
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Day 10: The History of Underclothes
“Underwear — practical garments with a utilitarian function or body coverings that serve an erotic purpose?…
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Dec 6th: Inseparable: the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American History
“In this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in…
Kate Braithwaite 