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Art Could Have Saved Us From Ourselves
The Federal Art Project set out to create a more democratic and enlightened America
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Christine Baumgarthuber
March 2023
On Snuff Spoons, Oedipal Forks, and My Latest Book
The history of cutlery is not as boring as you might think
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Christine Baumgarthuber
A “Demitasse” History of Britain’s Temperance Coffee Taverns
I have lived in southern New England for a while now, and it used to be that I could count on winter’s being, well, wintry. Snow fell and it stuck…
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Christine Baumgarthuber
February 2023
December 2022
“Where All Hearts Meet Together”: Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”
A man might then behold At Christmas, in each hall Good fires to curb the cold, And meat for great and small. The neighbors were friendly bidden, And…
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Christine Baumgarthuber
November 2022
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December 2021
March 2021
"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with Americans Sickens Dickens
To the distinction between dining and merely feeding no one was more alive than Charles Dickens. For him, any refreshment to be gotten from a meal was…
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Christine Baumgarthuber
February 2021
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