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This Victorian ghost book exposed spiritualist frauds with cool optical illusionsIn 1864, a peculiar book called "Spectropia" offered Victorian readers a scientific way to summon ghosts. As the Smithsonian reports, author J.H. Brown created this "toy book" to combat what he called ...
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This 19th-Century 'Toy Book' Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an IllusionThe resulting optical illusion wasn’t a supernatural apparition: Instead, it was the product of a scientific phenomenon known ...
A word must be said about the mechanical execution of the book. It is equal in typography to the best current specimens of European bookmaking, and in paper, print, and graphic embellishment ...
These memoirs, thrillers, romance, literary fiction, nonfiction and short stories focus on Native and Indigenous stories, in recognition of National American Indian Heritage Month ...
Henri Doré spent his life collecting examples of Chinese folk art. Written off by many of his contemporaries, that collection ...
Thomas would eventually launch a major assault on Hood, in the Battle of Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864), crippling Hood’s forces, inflicting over 6,000 casualties, virtually destroying his Army of ...
And first, a closer look at NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank’s new ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century ...
Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...
The western swing state has been whipsawed over recent months, starting with the Arizona Supreme Court deciding in April to let the state enforce the long-dormant 1864 law that criminalized all ...
The book reveals the drama of irregular guerrilla ... s Ride" featured prominently during Lincoln’s campaign of 1864 and reinforced the campaign slogan of "Don’t swap horses in midstream." ...
On November 29th, 1864, while John Evans was governor of Colorado and territorial superintendent of Indian Affairs, a Cheyenne and Arapaho village along Sand Creek in the Colorado Territory was ...
September, 1864, New-Haven. This valuable periodical ... the world of fine thoughts and glowing emotions that his works offer was a sealed book to most. Gradually, through the exertions of CARLYLE ...
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