by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Echo
Kara Walker’s “Subtlety” is Anything But Appearances notwithstanding, it’s safe to say Kara Walker didn’t intend to present a sugarcoated history when she created her cast of sticky subtleties in the defunct New York Domino Sugar refinery earlier this...
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Echo
Sugarcoating the Unsavory Side of History Sugarcoat history? Of course we can, but should we? Not in my opinion. Still, it’s a fine line to straddle when writing romantic historical fiction—particularly a story that takes place in brutal 18th-century Jamaica. I...
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....
