Exercise for Women in the Early 19th Century - Shannon Selin
Women who wanted to keep fit in the early 19th century had to contend with the notion that they were too delicate for many forms of exercise.| Shannon Selin
Women who wanted to keep fit in the early 19th century had to contend with the notion that they were too delicate for many forms of exercise.| Shannon Selin
Though reports of people living past 100 were common in the 1800s, most were probably false.| Shannon Selin
Estimates of the number of soldiers killed in battle during the Napoleonic Wars range from 500,000 to almost 2 million. What happened to all of those bodies?| Shannon Selin
An Italian immigrant who served in Napoleon’s Grande Armée, Dr. Félix Formento became a prominent medical practitioner in New Orleans.| Shannon Selin
Virginie's story was popular, but was it true?| Shannon Selin
