Michael Faraday
1862 - Hampton Court
With his memory fraying while institutions claim his work, the man who discovered electromagnetism sets down what the science actually felt like.
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1862 - Hampton Court
With his memory fraying while institutions claim his work, the man who discovered electromagnetism sets down what the science actually felt like.
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1865 - White House, Washington
Victory, reconstruction, and the unfinished cost of union.
In the final winter of the Civil War, a president confronts the distance between saving the Union and saving himself.
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1862 - Hampton Court
With his memory fraying while institutions claim his work, the man who discovered electromagnetism sets down what the science actually felt like.
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1862 - Hampton Court
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1865 - White House, Washington
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Victory, reconstruction, and the unfinished cost of union.
In the final winter of the Civil War, a president confronts the distance between saving the Union and saving himself.
1790 - Philadelphia
science-and-discovery
A contrasting life shaped by science and discovery.
In Philadelphia, the most practical man of the Revolution reflects on what independence actually required — and what it didn't.
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