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Christina Rossetti's book of verse, "Goblin Market", alludes to various interpretations of culture that was immensely popular in the Victorian area; consumerism and female sexuality. The text revolves around two sisters encompassed by the temptation…

Here we see another colored lithograph, advertising the ‘National Skating Palace.’ The viewer is led to believe this was a highly respected experience for two reasons. Firstly, having a lady, so gracefully skating towards us and inviting us to…

This picture shows the front page of the Boston Globe the day after the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist. The space given to the story shows sensationalism that follows this mystery.

This is another book written by Arthur Conan Doyle that documents the history of Spiritualism. It's important to note that Doyle views this history a purely academic way as the book tries to both provide a history of how the field developed while…

This is a book that records a conversation between author Arthur Conan Doyle and a medium who is speaking to his dead son, Pheneas. The book is written during a time in the Victorian era in which emphasis was put on scientifically proving the…

The Old Academy original building

The Brothers travel from Louisville to Kentucky's second oldest city, Bardstown, which was also also the first center of Roman Catholicism west of the Appalachian Mountains in the original western frontier territories of the United States as noted…

The Brothers arrive in Pittsburgh, a town which was newly chartered in 1816 and only had a population of 7,248 according to the upcoming 1820 census.

The building that is now known as the Stonewall Inn was originally constructed as stables between the years 1843 and 1846. The building itself went through many incarnations before it was bought by the Italian Mafia in 1966 and converted into a bar…

A supporter of President Hosni Mubarak, on camel, fights with anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo, Egypt