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Jan 4 - The Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes
Jan 11 - The Paris Flood of 1910
Jan 18 - Dining and Dinners
Jan 25 - Everyday Life in a Boys' Public School: Winchester
Feb 1 - The Women's Club Movement
Feb 8 - The Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Feb 15 - The Souls of Black Folk: Art & Literature
Feb 22 - W.E.B. DuBois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Mar 1 - Uncommon Women: Lady Explorers
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Mar 15 - Together We Stand: Women's Suffrage in the U.S.
Mar 22 - The Fight for Women's Education
Mar 29 - The Business of Being a Woman

Posts Tagged ‘gilded age’

Edwardiana in the News

December 21st, 2009 | 6 Comments

‘Palm Beach County at 100′ reveals details of the Gilded Age on island
For Jan Tuckwood, editor of the new book Palm Beach County at 100: Our History, Our Home, one of the most surprising things about the history of Palm Beach was its use of advanced technology at the end of the 19th century.
“Figulus used [...]

Tags: edwardian, gilded age, news
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Hallowe’en In the Gilded Age

October 28th, 2009 | 6 Comments

Despite its roots in European paganism, Halloween is a thoroughly American holiday. During the Gilded Age, Americans took Halloween quite seriously, even going so far as to celebrate it wherever they happened to be–as German society soon discovered when the expatriates residing in Berlin shook up the Kaiser’s capital with “games, Jack-o-lanterns, mince pies, and [...]

Tags: Amusements, celebrations, gilded age, halloween, parties, Society
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