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Sand was deeply committed to non-violent political change, characterizing herself at various points as a "Christian humanist" (she was a lapsed Catholic), a socialist and a communist. She fervently participated in the political upheavals in the 1840s and early '50s, writing "militantly socialist" novels and plays, publishing pamphlets and articles promoting revolution. In a letter, she wrote...
...good things" are on MOMA's walls, in plenty, along with a number of revealing oddities. Who would have thought that George Catlin, that dependable journeyman who labored so hard to record the dying Indian tribes on his journeys across America in the 1840s, would produce landscape studies-a low band of earth, a luminous veil of sky-that look like Rothkos...
Cities were growing rapidly in size: by 1830 the population of New York City was 242,000, of Philadelphia 80,462. Though not yet industrialized, the cities were nonetheless violent. The decades of the 1830s and 1840s were among the most tumultuous in our history. Rioting became commonplace for reasons that were partly economic (depressions that put artisans out of work or immigration that put them in competition with cheaper labor), partly religious (Catholics, Masons and Mormons were attacked and their buildings burned), partly political (the early anti-slavery agitation), and partly sporting (the drunker members of volunteer fire companies...
...news gatherers on public opinion. Critics have been examining this issue for more than a century. Typically it has not been the affirmative character of the media that has attracted most attention, but their critical functions, the standing challenge they present to constituted authority. Visiting the U.S. in the 1840s, Charles Dickens blamed the press for practically every kind of moral degeneration, noting that "with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous class who must find their reading in a newspaper" or nowhere at all. The style of newspapers, as well...
Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. An active abolitionist and temperance crusader during the 1840s, she had given little thought to the woman's-rights movement. It was not until 1853, when she was barred from addressing an audience at a temperance rally because of her sex, that she found her true purpose. Her activism in the movement never waned until her death in 1906, despite years of public vilification, poverty and apparent hopelessness...