Wild West star Annie Oakley's rifle up for auction

A rifle which belonged to the 19th Century American sharpshooter who inspired the musical Annie Get Your Gun is going up for ...

Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.
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The Edinburgh companion to nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing / edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers

Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...
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Selection of 19th-Century American Art, Including Many Hudson River School Artists, Heads to Auction

An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City. The ...

How the 19th-Century Opium War Shapes Xi’s Trade Clash With Trump

China’s leader draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat ...
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Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery

In the American South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, ...