Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...
Science Daily

'Monstrous births' and the making of race in the nineteenth-century United States

From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, 'monstrous births' -- malformed or anomalous fetuses -- were, to Western medicine, an object of superstition. In 19th-century America, they became instead an ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The 19th-Century Novel That Inspired a Communist Utopia on the American Frontier

Icaria was guided by a single principle: “to each following his needs, from each following his strengths,” as Cabet put it. Courtesy of Cathy Riley / French Icarian Colony Foundation Icaria was ...
Bucks Free Press

Nostalgia: Visit by ex-American enslaved to Bucks in the 19th century

Slavery was abolished in the United Kingdom in 1807 and across the British Empire by the Slavery Act of 1833, but continued in the USA until 1865.

Norton Museum 'Veiled Presence' explores peculiar practices of 19th-century photography

Running through Nov. 30, the Norton's "Veiled Presence" focuses on the "hidden mother" style of photography that was popular during the 19th century. A Norton Museum of Art exhibition explores the ...
Forbes

19th-Century ‘Afric-American Picture Gallery’ Brought To Life At Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

A story. An imagined future. An “intellectual funhouse” in the words of Jonathan Michael Square. Square guest curated an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, DE ...