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The arts…

Search Author: Poe
Results: Over 30 fiction, poetry, and non-fiction pieces by Poe, including:

The Raven; Edgar Allen Poe; Southern Literary Messenger (1834-1845), Richmond; Mar 1845; Vol. 11; pg. 186, 3 pgs

The philosophy of furniture; Edgar A Poe; Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review (1839-1840), Philadelphia; May 1840; Vol. 6, Iss. 5; pg. 243, 3 pgs

Search Keyword: Poe
Results: Pieces by and about Poe, including

The late Edgar A. Poe; J R T; Southern Literary Messenger; Devoted to Every Department of Literature, and the Fine Arts (1848-1864), Richmond; Nov 1849; Vol. 15, Iss. 11; pg. 694, 4 pgs

Adventure…

Search Keyword: piracy

Art. IV.--The piracy of Captain Kidd; Anonymous; The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review (1839-1870), New York; Jan 1846; Vol. 14, Iss. 1; pg. 39, 13 pgs

Daring act of piracy on the coast of Cuba; Anonymous; Army and Navy Chronicle (1835-1842), Washington; Jun 11, 1840; Vol. 10, Iss. 24; pg. 384, 1 pgs

Privateering--and piracy; Anonymous; Niles' Weekly Register (1814-1837), Baltimore; Apr 17, 1819; Vol. 4, Iss. 8; pg. 129, 2 pgs

Search Author: Peary

MOVING ON THE NORTH POLE.--OUTLINES OF MY ARCTIC CAMPAIGN; By LIEUTENANT ROBERT E. PEARY, U.S.N.; McClure's Magazine (1893-1926), New York; Mar 1899; Vol. VOL.XII., Iss. 0; pg. 417, 10 pgs

War…

Search Keyword: Battle of Trenton

General Washington's account of the battle of Trenton, dated Headquarters, Newtown, December 26, 1776; G Washington; The American Museum; or, Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces & c. Prose and Poetical (1787-1788), Philadelphia; Apr, 1789; Vol. 5; pg. 403, 2 pgs

The Columbian Parnassiad. Addressed to General Washington, in the year 1777, after the battles of Trenton and Princeton; Emelia; The Columbian Magazine (1786-1790), Philadelphia; Jan 1787; Vol. 1, Iss. 5; pg. 245, 1 pgs

Weird Science…

Search Keyword: Phrenology

Phreno-Geology: The Progressive Creation of Man indicated by Natural History, and confirmed by discoveries which connect the organization of the brain with the successive geological periods; Anonymous; Medical Examiner (1854-1856), Philadelphia; Jan 1855; Vol. 18, Iss. 121; pg. 29, 8 pgs Art. XXVII.

Phrenology examined; P Flourens; The American Journal of the Medical Sciences (1827-1924), Philadelphia; Apr 1846, Iss. 22; pg. 437, 1 pgs

An Examination of Phrenology. In two lectures / Letter of John Quincy Adams to Dr. Thomas Sewall; Anonymous; Literary Examiner and Western Monthly Review (1839-1839), Pittsburgh; Aug 1839; Vol. 1, Iss. 4; pg. 289, 12 pgs

Hard Science…

Search Keyword: Earthquake

Art. I.--On earthquakes--their causes and effects; Isaac Lea; American Journal of Science and Arts (1820-1879), New Haven; 1825; Vol. 9, Iss. 2; pg. 209, 7 pgs

Information concerning the earthquakes which have prevailed in the United States since December, 1811; particularly in the States and Territories; Stanley Griswold; The Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence, Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and, New York; 1813; Vol. 16, Iss. 3; pg. 304, 6 pgs

Food…

Search Keyword: Rhubarb; Article Type: Recipe

Rhubarb pie; Anonymous; Plough, the Loom and the Anvil (1848-1857), Philadelphia; Jun 1852; Vol. 4, Iss. 12; pg. 762, 1 pgs

Rhubarb Pies; Anonymous; The Farmers Cabinet and American Herd Book, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural and Domestic Affairs (1836-1848), Philadelphia; Aug 1, 1836; Vol. 1, Iss. 2; pg. 27, 1 pgs

Inventions…

Search Keyword: Airplane

WILBUR WRIGHT'S NEW RECORD; Scientific American (1845-1908), New York; Dec 26, 1908; Vol. Vol. XCIX, Iss. 0; pg. 468, 1 pgs

Statistics…

Search Keyword: Population Article Type: Statistics

Population of Chicago; Anonymous; The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review (1839-1870), New York; Feb 1863; Vol. 48, Iss. 2; pg. 189, 1 pgs

Ratio per cent of population and certain products in the states to the total of the United States; Anonymous; Plough, the Loom and the Anvil (1848-1857), Philadelphia; Dec 1854; Vol. 7, Iss. 6; pg. 327, 1 pgs

Sample Results: Americana

Advice

The Directory of Love, Royal American Magazine, 1774-1775

Fashion

Will Skirts Disappear?, Forum, January 1927

The Latest & Newest Fashions For 1843, Lady's World, February 1843

Music

Where's the Snow, the Summer Snow!, Evergreen, December 1840

Song, by Anna Seward, Journal of Musick, Issue 18, 1810

Jazz is Not Music; A Reply to George Antheil in the July Forum, Forum, August 1928

Politics

America in Distress (cartoon by Paul Revere), Royal American Magazine, 1774-1775, March 1775

Popular Culture

The Gibson Girl: How Charles Dana Gibson Started; with illustrations, heretofore unpublished, Ladies' Home Journal, October 1902

The Cartoon's Contribution To Children (by Walt Disney), Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, October 1933

Mickey vs. Popeye, Forum and Century, November 1935

Billy the Kid; A Highwayman Whose Life was a Series of Crimes--The Most Noted Outlaw in America, National Police Gazette, August 13, 1881

Lotteries have become so general, the following account of them may not be uninteresting..., Balance and Columbian Repository, May 29, 1804

Recipes

Love Apple Catsup, New England Farmer, April 15, 1825

Thanksgiving Dinner, Ladies' Home Journal, November 1890

Sports

Plutocratic Incomes of Modern Athletes, Current Opinion, June 1920

Large Football: The Thanksgiving Day Princeton-Yale Game, National Police Gazette, December 14, 1889

Sample Results: Black History Month

Phillis Wheatley

Poetical Essays. The following letter and verses, were written by the famous Phillis Wheatley, the African Poetess, and presented to his excellency Gen. Washington; The Pennsylvania Magazine or, American Monthly Museum, April 1776

Frederick Douglass

The folly of our opponents; The Liberty Bell; Issue 6, 1845

Speeches of Henry C. Wright--Frederick Douglass--James N. Buffum--George Thompson; Liberator, May 29, 1846

Booker T. Washington

How Tuskegee Does Its Work; Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, September 1901

W.E.B. Du Bois

THE EVOLUTION OF NEGRO LEADERSHIP; The Dial; a Semi - monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information, July 16, 1901

Paul Laurence Dunbar

My Sweet Brown Gal; The Ladies' Home Journal, January 1902

Zora Neale Hurston

Letter-- No Title; Forum, September 1926

Sample Results: Poetry Month

William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis; The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, September 1817

Willa Cather

PRAIRIE SPRING; McClure's Magazine, December 1912

Emily Dickinson

THE GRASS; McClure's Magazine, July 1925

T.S. Eliot

THE WASTE LAND; The Dial, November 1922 Its first public appearance.

Robert Frost

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING; Current Opinion, January-June, 1924

Edgar Allan Poe

TO HELEN; Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, September 1841

Robert Louis Stevenson

My Bed Is a Boat; A Child's Garden of Verses; Current Literature, February 1896

Walt Whitman

A TWILIGHT SONG; For unknown buried soldiers, North and South; Century Illustrated Magazine, May 1890

William Butler Yeats

THOUGHTS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD; The Dial, September 1921

Sample Results: Women's History Month

RETROGRESSION OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN; FLORA MCDONALD THOMPSON; The North American Review, November 1900

Abstract

I HAVE not encountered the ghost of my great-grandmother, but something akin to it which has startled me no less. I have been face to face with the American woman of little more than half a century ago, who rose to greet me from the dusty pages of De Tocqueville's "Democracy," and who, by the light of contrast, has caused me to gasp with astonishment, beholding the degeneracy of her end-of-the-century descendant.

PROGRESS OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN; ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.; The North American Review, December 1900

Abstract

An article, by Flora McDonald Thompson, entitled "Retrogression of the American Woman," which was published in the November number of the REVIEW, contains many startling assertions, which, if true, would be the despair of philosophers. The title itself contradicts the facts of the last half century.

THE STATUS OF WOMAN, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE; SUSAN B. ANTHONY; The Arena, May 1897

THE HUNGRY HEART; EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY; Current Opinion, July 1921

THE GREAT LAWSUIT: MAN versus MEN. WOMAN versus WOMEN. (by Margaret Fuller); The Dial: a Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, July 1843

ON FEMALE EDUCATION; Royal American Magazine, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement, January 1774

Abstract

"How many female minds, rich with native genius and noble sentiment, have been lost to the world, and all their mental treasure buried in oblivion?-Like the India ship freighted with diamonds, which never reached the port for want of a pilot, is many a fair one's fate."