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1897 to 1897 opens onto 1 life, no authored place stories yet, and 1 named historical windows.
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Reform, invention, nationalism, and new public expectations of leadership.
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1897 CE to 1897 CE
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1897 - Friedrichsruh
Dismissal, founder grievance, and the comedy of inferior successors.
Dismissed, ageing, and deliberately sidelined, the architect of German unification watches his successors dismantle his work.
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1897 - Friedrichsruh
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1897 - Friedrichsruh
Otto von Bismarck stands at 1897 - Friedrichsruh, with connected routes through neighbouring lives, places, and historical pressure.
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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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1799 - Mount Vernon
state-power
A contrasting life shaped by state power.
In his last year at Mount Vernon, the father of a nation admits what the republic asked of him — and what it took.
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1885 - Mount McGregor
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Mount McGregor, racing against cancer to finish his memoirs, a general and president faces his final campaign.
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1905 - Rochester, New York
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
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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1895 - London
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Confined to her rooms, no longer able to walk the wards, the founder of modern nursing reflects on what reform actually requires.
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1894 - Washington, D.C.
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In Washington, as his body fails, the man who escaped slavery and changed a nation confronts what the republic still refuses to face.
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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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1799 - Mount Vernon
state-power
A contrasting life shaped by state power.
In his last year at Mount Vernon, the father of a nation admits what the republic asked of him — and what it took.
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1885 - Mount McGregor
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Mount McGregor, racing against cancer to finish his memoirs, a general and president faces his final campaign.
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1905 - Rochester, New York
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
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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