NBC Boston on MSN5 天
19th-century book due back to Worcester Public Library in 1973 is returned
The Worcester Public Library recently had an unusual surprise — the return of a book more than half a century overdue.
Smithsonian Magazine19 天
This 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion
"Spectropia" demystified the techniques used by mediums who claimed they could speak to the dead, revealing the "absurd follies of Spiritualism" ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, ...
Cambridge University Press4 个月
Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
This exploration of the intersection of two important aspects of 19th-century Western life will interest scientists and musicians alike.’ R. Pitts Source: Choice ‘Over the course of the essays, all of ...
I Gave My Son the Books I Loved. He Chose ‘Heidi’ Instead.
I went to the Alps in August because my son — a New York City third grader obsessed with baseball, projectiles and YouTube — ...
Brandeis University4 年
Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-century Eastern European ...
A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society ... Parush is among the first scholars to ...
BBC7 个月
Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library. Des Destinées de l'Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the ...