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4 days ago · Married Life in the Middle Ages offers a refreshing approach to medieval marriage. Elisabeth van Houts focuses on the social and emotional sides of marriage rather than viewing marriage through a legal or institutional lens.
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5 days ago · Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 2002, ISBN: 801868785X; 309pp.; Price: £42.00. Tavern-going was as an important a part of the social fabric of early America as churchgoing. Even in the most obscure communities Americans visited a tavern regularly if not daily.
4 days ago · The English rhyme of “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe,” was first heard in the mid-19th century. It didn't appear in print until 1871. More than these items bringing mere luck on the wedding day, the "something borrowed" item was supposed to increase the bride's chance of ...
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5 days ago · This is a purely instrumental view of marriage, and one that would have been very familiar to 18th- and 19th-century Americans. For most of U.S. history, marriage was unabashedly transactional.
1 day ago · Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who were watching the events in America from Europe with keen interest, observed, “The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty.
6 days ago · Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European elements, the Germanic culture started to exist in the Jastorf culture that developed out of the Nordic Bronze Age .
2 days ago · 1840: Children Farmers. Children's portraits were a popular medium in the mid-19th century. Photographers often used children and models for their creativity. This image dates back to about 1840 ...
