Tobacco

The Agreement Concerning the Admission of Tobacco Between the United States and Austria-Hungary was signed on December 24, 1863. It allowed Austrian tobacco, purchased before 1861, to be exported under the supervision of French naval vessels due to Austria's inability to provide its own.

<p><span class="deck"> Five successive Benjamin Harrisons created a private empire of tobacco and trade and a great Virginia plantation</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Forget your conventional picture of America in 1810. In the first half of the 19th century, we were not at all the placid, straitlaced, white-picket-fence nation we imagine ourselves to have been. By looking at the patterns of everyday life as recorded by contemporary foreign and native observers of the young republic, and by asking the questions that historians don't think to ask of another time</span><span style="line-height: 1.3;">—What were people really like? How did they greet one another in the street? How did they occupy their leisure time? What did they eat?</span><span style="line-height: 1.3;">—Jack Larking brings us a portrait of another America, an America that was so different from both our conception of its past life and its present-day reality as to seem a foreign country.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How a tireless impresario parlayed a cloud of smoke into several fortunes</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Surgeon General makes his case.</span></p>