So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was… — Christine Jennings American economy Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had… — Christine Jennings Bits Copy Share Image
There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and… — Christine Jennings 20th century Copy Share Image
The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their… — Christine Jennings Causes Copy Share Image
Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just… — Christine Jennings Around the world Copy Share Image