Susan B. Anthony
1905 - Rochester, New York
In Rochester, after a lifetime of being arrested for voting, a suffragist reflects on the distance between rights declared and rights delivered.
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In Rochester, after a lifetime of being arrested for voting, a suffragist reflects on the distance between rights declared and rights delivered.
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1900 - Osborne House
Ceremony, ageing authority, and the slow conversion of a queen into institution.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Alone at Osborne House, an ageing queen confronts the cost of an empire built on duty and silence.
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1865 - White House, Washington
state-power
A contrasting life shaped by state power.
In the final winter of the Civil War, a president confronts the distance between saving the Union and saving himself.
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1897 - Friedrichsruh
Dismissal, founder grievance, and the comedy of inferior successors.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Dismissed, ageing, and deliberately sidelined, the architect of German unification watches his successors dismantle his work.
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1912 - Auburn, New York
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Auburn, a woman who freed hundreds through the Underground Railroad sets down the journeys that no document ever recorded.
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