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A Traitor to His Species - Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
Category: Animals and Nature
From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for ani ...Show more
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America by Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Ernest Freeberg (University of Tennessee)
Category: History
A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a ...Show more
The Age of Edison - Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America by Ernest Freeberg
Category: History | Series: Penguin History American Life
The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the bir ...Show more
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