A New Eyewitness Account: Observations and Thoughts from Judith Sargent Murray`s Letters 2:00 PM Join historian Bonnie Hurd Smith for a look at the correspondence of Judith Sargent Murray. Murray—the most important female essayist of the eighteenth century and a strong advocate for women’s rights—was an avid letter writer whose “letter books” were only recently discovered. more...
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In 1799, Salem native Nathaniel Bowditch revised John H. Moore's New Practical Navigator, the standard navigation manual of the 18th century. Bowditch discovered and corrected over 8,000 errors in Moore's manual! In 1802, Bowditch published the New American Practical Navigator.