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Exodus to the Shore: Resorts for Ordinary People
Starting by the mid-nineteenth century, people began to recognize the ill effects that unsanitary, unhealthy, and crowded conditions prevailing in the manufacturing centers and cities had upon their mental and …
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Book Review: Douglas R. Egerton, A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
On May 13, 1911, in a moving obituary for the famed abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the editors of the Providence Journal emphasized the “beloved” reformer’s steadfast commitment to improving the …
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