One half of “The Typewriter and the Guillotine” is compelling, and it’s probably not the half you’d think. “The Typewriter” part of Mark Braude’s account of midcentury Paris is the better part (and it ...
In just five agonizing months — from Abraham Lincoln’s election as president on Nov. 6, 1860, until the first shot fired in the Civil War on April 12, 1861 — America went from unstable to ...
Based on the diaries of Isaac Monroe Cline and on contemporary accounts. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...