April 1861

Articles

• Life in the Iron Mills

  "This is what I want you to do. I want you to hide your disgust, take no heed to your clean clothes, and come right down with me—here, into the thickest of the fog and foul effluvia. I want you to hear this story."

  Rebecca Harding

• The Reign of King Cotton

  In 1861, the grandson of President John Quincy Adams (and great-granson of President John Adams) argued that the nature of the cotton trade itself contained the seeds of slavery's demise

  Charles Francis Adams Jr.

• Charleston Under Arms

  A Connecticut Yankee visits Charleston during the Fort Sumter standoff

  John William De Forest

• April Days

• The Professor's Story

• Bubbles

• Cities and Parks: With Special Reference to the New York Central Park

• Glimpses of Garibaldi

• Two or Three Troubles

• Marion Dale

• Descriptive Ethnology/Anthropologie Der Naturvölker

• Il Politecnico. Repertorio Mensile Di Studj Applicati Alla Prosperità E Coltura Sociale

• Elsie Venner

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