Today is Thanksgiving Day.This year we're reprinting a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1840.John Inglefield's
Archives for November 2018
Northern Continental Coastlines Mapped
A different phase of Arctic exploration began in 1670 with the formation of the Hudson Bay fur company.Continuing The Search for the North
La Salle on the Illinois
As La Salle looked around on the circle of his followers, he read an augury of fresh trouble in their disturbed and rueful visages.Previously in The
Henry Hudson’s Explorations
From Hudson to Peary three centuries extend. Through all these years the lure of the North has coaxed men on.Continuing The Search for the North
The Search for the North Pole
This series has eight easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Earliest Polar Explorers.IntroductionEven though the North Pole was
Printing Into the Twentieth Century
Today's installment concludes Early History of Printing,our selection from Origin and Progress of Printing by Henry George Bohn published in
Printing Improvements Since the Fourteenth Century
The principal movements have been in stereotyping, electrotyping, the improvement of presses, and the application of steam power.Continuing Early
Printing Comes to England
William Caxton, by common consent, is the introducer of the art of printing into England.Continuing Early History of Printing,our selection from
Early Books Printed
Before the commencement of the sixteenth century, that is, within forty or fifty years of the invention of printing with movable type, upward of