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April 13, 2015

Every Home a Distillery

What do you use to wash the baby, clean the house, color your hair or serve for breakfast? If it’s the 18th century, the answer is alcohol. Professor Sarah Meacham describes her research for the book “Every Home a Distillery.”

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March 30, 2015

The Business of Death

The funeral industry arises from a combination of necessity, sentimentality, and vanity. Dr. Kelly Brennan Arehart describes the path of America’s death business, and the early vestiges still with us today.

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March 16, 2015

The George Washington Seal

A pocket-sized ornament gives monumental insight into the private life of America’s best-known General: George Washington.

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March 2, 2015

Marry Me?

Modern marriage owes its structure to an historic form. Equal parts love, practicality, and business, today’s unions share more than you’d think with their colonial counterparts.

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February 16, 2015

Through the Ranks

A new web features follows an entering class of Fifers and Drummers on their journey through the ranks.

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February 2, 2015

Resilience in Tragedy: African American Lives

African American history is weighted with tragedy, but bringing the fullness of life to the stories of enslaved individuals is the mission of the African American History Program under the direction of Stephen Seals.

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