In three of the four Gospels of the New Testament, the two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus are but bit players. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark portray them as impertinent and ignorant men who readily echoed the… Read More ›
Philadelphia
Day 35: Philadelphia & the Prisons of Yesteryear
When he visited The Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842, Charles Dickens wrote down about the prison’s style of solitary confinement in his American Notes, saying: “I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture… Read More ›