H.G Wells’ The Outline of History
The Outline of History transformed H.G Wells’ career from popular novelist to bestselling educational author. Chronicling the history of humanity from the formation of the …
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The Outline of History transformed H.G Wells’ career from popular novelist to bestselling educational author. Chronicling the history of humanity from the formation of the …
Almanacs were an exceedingly popular genre from the early seventeenth until the late nineteenth century. Published annually, they typically included a calendar with important holidays, …
Technological and social advances beginning in the eighteenth century led to a boom in periodical publishing in the late eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries. …
Designer, craftsman, poet, and political activist, William Morris (1834-1896), was an influential force within the Arts and Crafts movement, a reaction to what was seen …
Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior was one of the grandest and most expensive publishing projects of the seventeenth century. It was a product of the unprecedented …
The McGuffey Eclectic Readers are some of the most famous textbooks in the history of American education. From 1836 to 1920 half of U.S. school-aged …
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a British periodical that ran from 1832 to 1845, was an outgrowth of …
The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland (1855), written by botanist Thomas Moore with color engravings by Henry Bradbury, provided fern enthusiasts not only with …
Parlor magic, easy-to-learn illusions performed for a small crowd, became a popular form of entertainment during the nineteenth century. This type of performance usually involved …
One of the most impressive and unusual maps made of an American city in the nineteenth century was Richard J. Compton and Camille N. Dry’s …