Introduction: At home in nineteenth-century America -- The emergence of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal : Excerpt from Henry Lee and Mary Lee, Letters and journals: with other family letters, ...

Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass are the latest subjects of a filmmaker long-engaged in telling the contributions and challenges of African Americans. Two new PBS documentaries focus on the ...

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...