Charles Babbage’s First Automated Chess Machine on Display in the London Science Museum Written By Murray Ellison | November 1st, 2017 Literary Historian, Gerald Kennedy writes, “In Poe’s...
Written by Murray Ellison Poe’s early schooling and military training inspire and shape his interest in science. According to Kenneth Silverman, Poe’s secondary education started after his foster...
“M.S. Found in a Bottle:” A Look at Poe’s Skepticism of 19th-Century Science, Part II Murray Ellison | August 31, 2017 By being unobserved, the unnamed narrator of Poe’s...
For those unfamiliar with the Mock Trial, it’s our most popular offering for school groups and it works really well for adults, too! We take Poe’s great story “The Tell-Tale...
From June 22 until September 17, 2017, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia will feature Investigating History: Testing Edgar Allan Poe’s Hair, a groundbreaking new exhibit examining the...
By Murray Ellison Poe’s first important tale, “MS. Found in a Bottle,” (1833) won the Baltimore Visiter’s first prize for fiction. Poe scholar, Thomas Mabbott calls it a “masterpiece,” contending...
By the time that Poe started writing professionally, the Industrial Revolution had already introduced many dramatic advancements that affected the lifestyles and culture of the nineteenth-century...
The votes are in, and the loser isDaniel Payne. During the Poe Museum’s recent exhibit CSI: Poe, we asked our guests to help solve the murder of Mary Rogers. Back...
