In "American Idyll," Cornelia Stratton Parker paints a poignant portrait of her husband, Carlton H. Parker, a prominent social reformer who dedicated...
This academic thesis, written in 1918, provides a detailed and comprehensive study of the daily lives of soldiers in the Continental Army during the A...
O Cortiço, a masterpiece by Aluísio Azevedo, is a powerful and unflinching portrayal of life in a tenement building in late 19th-century Rio de Janeir...