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Swine flu panic (in 1976).
It scares me that I have to read Gawker for historical perspective on today’s headlines.
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Best food history link…
…from my History of Food Bleg: Food Timeline. Apparently, it’s been an Internet project since 1999! That’s like forever in cyberspace.
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Two killer web sites for historic images.
Ever since I switched over to PowerPoint lectures for my survey class (all images with minimal text, of course) a few years ago, I’ve been constantly on the prowl for better images than the ones I...
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Patent medicine cards and other archival oddities.
Perhaps I’ll devote weekends from now on to posts from Boing Boing that the folks at AHA Today can cite on Thursdays. This week, Boing Boing linked to this post from Mental Floss which sent me...
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Buildings of Detroit.
Photos, postcards and other information about the building of Detroit are available, logically enough, at BuildingsofDetroit.com. To say that the images are haunting in light of the current state of...
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Online collections at the Hagley Museum and Library.
It’s sort of funny, really. I’m speaking at the Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware on Thursday night, but it took a web site review in the JAH for me to realize just how much material they have put...
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For educational purposes only.
I just came back from watching a talented and brave 8th grade teacher teach his students about racism at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. He told me about the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University,...
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A Thanksgiving treat.
Via the Scout Report, it’s the menu collection at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas. While the wonderfully tacky Vegas menus are there, there are at least a few lovely old New York menus too. Bon...
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Victorian ephemera at the British Library.
One other cool thing about Twitter is that it gives me yet another place to learn about cool stuff on the web that I probably wouldn’t have heard of otherwise. The Evanion Collection of Ephemera at...
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I can live without the New York Times.
I used to think that I couldn’t live without watching the CBS Evening News every night. I haven’t watched the CBS Evening News since 1996. I used to think that I couldn’t live without meat. I’ve been a...
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