Everett Shinn captured the poverty of slums to the privilege of the gilded upper crust in a rapidly modernizing world. He started his professional life in the early 1890s as an illustrator-reporter on gritty stories for newspapers in Philadelphia. He soon applied his skills for depicting dramatic events
Inventions and Discoveries of the Industrial Revolution defined today’s world.
Strange nineteenth-century customs, holidays and events echo in today’s world.
Victorian Age fashion pushed forward into greater freedom.
Advances in the Industrial Era spawned secret places, many of which you can still visit.
Nellie Bly and other Victorian Era visionaries blazed trails to your future.
Explore pets, plants and other 19th century natural wonders and people who protected them.
Rival journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland raced around the world in 1889. Facing treacherous…
