Hacker News with Generative AI: 19th Century

An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1825 (bcmullins.github.io)
This series looks at research from years past. I survey a handful of books and articles in a particular year from math, economics, philosophy, international relations, and other interesting topics. This project was inspired by my retrospective on Foreign Affairs' first issue from September 1922.

Research, History, Academia, 19th Century, Literature

34 points by wannabebarista 4 days ago | 2 comments

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888) (publicdomainreview.org)
After the Irish-American journalist David Goodman Croly successfully predicted the Panic of 1873 and the results of several political elections, he hung up his newspaperman’s hat and went into the forecasting business.

History, Journalism, Predictions, 19th Century

10 points by benbreen 54 days ago | 1 comments

The Victorian Internet (wikipedia.org)
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers is a 1998 book by Tom Standage.

History, Technology, Books, 19th Century

14 points by mooreds 57 days ago | 2 comments

Regency Sex Ed (historynewsnetwork.org)
How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?

Sex Education, History, Europe, 19th Century

112 points by crescit_eundo 99 days ago | 67 comments

The pills that cured all ills; James Morison the Hygeist (2014) (blogspot.com)
Now almost completely forgotten James Morison was once a household name thanks to his Universal Vegetable Pills Nº1 and Nº2.

History, Medicine, Health, 19th Century

23 points by antognini 134 days ago | 8 comments