September 22, 2007 -- Fears infin-de-siecle Britain that fathers were absenting themselves from the home prompted a reaction from the evangelical periodical press,...

June 1, 2007 -- In the 1850s and 1860s, as Realism became a contested term among artists and critics, the traditional form of the artist-model transaction, in which...

June 1, 2007 -- An image can serve to introduce this article: a photograph captioned "Bernard Berenson, 1959, after listening to Yehudi Menuhin" (Fig. 1)....

March 22, 2007 -- The fin-de-siecle French finance minister Maurice Rouvier once stated that France was "not rich enough to fight alcoholism." (1) Alcohol...

March 22, 2007 -- "Le poison est une force morale: l'esclave a droit d'empoisonner. Si j'etais esclave, et que j'eusse perdu force et courage dans les hontes...