1790 to 1800

New York, New York

Arts/Leisure, Art development

"They [Americans] are depreciate, unprincipled inciters having ruined themselves through proliferation and debauchery of every kind," ranted a scathing excerpt from an English editorial. "The whole nation is thrown [itself] in contention... Such has been the degeneracy of modern patriotism, that they would expunge every word from our dictionary, or frame [canvas]." Through the eyes of the British,...