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'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 ...
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Divers In Lake Ontario Have Discovered A Mysterious, Centuries-Old Sunken Ship With Its Masts Still Standing

While searching for the Rapid City, a ship that sank near Toronto in 1917, divers came across a promising wreck on the bottom ...
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Love Token, United States, 19th century

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This coin is called a love token ...
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Scale, United States, 19th century

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. scales: 20 cm x 21 cm x 6.5 cm; 7 7/8 ...
Reason

The Original Meaning of "Subject to the Jurisdiction" of the United States

It meant under the authority of U.S. law, thus excluding foreign diplomats, foreign armies and (at the time) Native American tribes. In this post I'll consider the original meaning of the second ...
Foreign Affairs

The End of the Long American Century

President Donald Trump has tried both to impose the United States on the world and to distance the country from it. He began his second term by brandishing American hard power, threatening Denmark ...