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  • Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk

    by Fanny D. Bergen, Editor, William Wells Newell, Introduction ...
    This edition features a linked Table of Contents and NotesCONTENTSIntroductionI. BabyhoodBaptism. — Physiognomy. — Introduction to the World. — First Actions. — Various.II. ChildhoodAsseveration. — Challenge. — Fortune. — Friendship. — Mythology. — Punishment. — Sport. — Various.III. Physical CharacteristicsBeauty. — Dimple. — Ears. — Eyes and Eyebrows. — Finger-nails. — Foot. — Forehead. — Hair. ... Read more

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  • Walking

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  • The Divine Magnet

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  • Customs and Fashions in Old New England

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  • My Friends at Brook Farm

    by John Van Dee Zee Sears ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s. It was founded by former Unitarian minister George Ripley and his wife Sophia Ripley at the Ellis Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts (9 miles outside of ... Read more

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  • Costume Of Colonial Times

    by Alice Morse Earle ...
    This unusual works was originally published in 1894 and is a fascinating look at the History of Colonial Dress and the Costumes of Colonial Times, it will appeal greatly to any historian. The material for the compilation of this glossary has been found in old letters, wills, inventories of estates, court records, and in eighteenth-century newspapers. Many of the earliest books, particularly those ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Rare Nineteenth-Century American Verse of Memory, Moral Shadow, Nature, and Puritan Legacy

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emmett Thornmere ...
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  • Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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  • Thoreau on Nature

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  • Princes of Cotton

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    A rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters. But they had much in common too. All were from the Deep South. All were young, between seventeen and twenty-five. All had a connection to cotton and slaves. Most obviously, all were diarists, enduring night upon night of cramped hands ... Read more

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