Archive forMarch, 2011

With the coming of photography, average people were at last able to share and save the likenesses of their family and friends.  Collecting photographs of famous people soon became a popular hobby.  A single family photograph album might show a well-loved grandparent sharing the page with Civil War generals or celebrity actors.   This issue […]

“From every quarter have I heard exclamations against masculine women… If it be against the imitation of manly virtues, or, more properly speaking the attainment of those talents and virtues, the exercise of which ennobles the human character, and which raise females in the scale of animal being, when they are comprehensively termed mankind; –all […]