by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century
I love these lyrics from “I Think I Hear a Woodpecker Knocking at My Family Tree.” They serve as a reminder that it’s best to have a sense of humor and an open mind when delving into genealogy. My family tree is an awful sight to see For the bark is all worn bare;...
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Whisper
Yesterday’s Tabloids Simple and cheap, broadsides were a common means of communication for close to three hundred years, up through the early 1800s. They were first used to post notices of royal proclamations and later expanded into notices of events,...
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Whisper
James Wilson’s law lecture series was not the nation’s first law course. It was, however, the first significant law course to be established in America since the Constitution was ratified, and the series had the distinction of being held in the nation’s new, albeit...
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Echo
Was it a Category 3, 4, or 5? Jamaicans couldn’t categorize the hurricane that slammed their island on October 3, 1780. Instead, they compared their losses to the losses they’d suffered in past 18th-century hurricanes. Had more or less people been swept...
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Whisper
Just how expensive were books for the average Philadelphian in the 1780s? I’ve read they were a luxury, however learning an edition of The History of Ancient Greece, from the earliest time until the time it became a Roman province, by William Robertson, Esq....
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Whisper
Masked balls of the eighteenth century fostered all sorts of illicit amusements. The events, both commercial and private, were seen by some as an opportunity to freely engage in unseemly behavior while maintaining anonymity. They were enormously popular—in...
