Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...