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New York Times Disunion articles by Jean Huets
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
Civil War articles (New York Times) by Jean Huets: A Black Correspondent at the Front | The Iron Brigade | The Union Dead | Blood in the Carolina Hills | The Fall Line’s Fault | Boxers, Briefs and Battles | Killing Time: Playing Cards in the Civil War
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Whitman - Song of Myself 1881 PDF
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
I made this 1881 edition “Song of Myself” PDF to print out for the Every Atom on-line course. (I’m experimenting with reading the poem on an e-reader as well as studying a hard copy.)
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Whitman’s father & House Framing in the Mid-19th Century
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
A line in Walt Whitman’s poem (today known as) “I Sing the Body Electric” appeared only in the first (untitled) 1855 edition:
Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel
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Nineteenth-century underwear (men’s)
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
Please visit my New York Times Disunion article on Civil War (men’s) underwear, the basics on their form and manufacturing, laundering and lice, and soldiers’ not always orthodox ways of procurement.
Following are some extras.
At the Gaines Mill Living History weekend in July, ( Read more... ) -
Mid-19th century perfumes
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
Nineteenth-century women tended toward flowery scents, but a man could wear “violet water” without being considered effeminate.
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Irish immigrants in 19th Century America
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
“The laborers about the wharfs, when not negroes, were almost without exception Irish….”
In his 1910 memoir, Chicago journalist Frederick Francis Cook cites the collision of race and class to explain what he perceived as the Irish immigrant’s opposition to abolition of slavery:
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Medical opiates in 19th century
Originally published at Leaves of Grass. You can comment here or there.
The unlimited and easy procurement of opiates troubled 19th century pharmacists….
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