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...
by Linda Lee Graham | Life in the 18th Century, Slide, Voices Whisper
The demand for reading material kept pace with the growing rate of literacy in British North America, and by the last half of the eighteenth century Philadelphia boasted a small number of lending libraries to meet it. One of the public libraries was Thomas...
