Readex Twitter Feed, 1-7 August 2010

By : Posted: August 9th, 2010

RT @amhistorymuseum: New on our blog: Collecting American science http://ow.ly/18stRS

RT @cliotropic: RT @briandistelberg: Absolutely riveting color photos taken by Farm Security Administration b/w 1939 and 1943: http://bit.ly/c4eZhn

RT @cliotropic: RT @bancroftlibrary: Alice Ramsey and 3 friends complete the first all-female transcontinental auto trip in 1909 http://bit.ly/akc2yN

RT @newsweek “A world without physical books is to conceive of a world somehow diminished.” http://bit.ly/awWVr2

RT @LibraryofCT: Why Books? Nine Reasons to be Optimistic http://ow.ly/2lzIO (Digital Book World)

SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS announces its Twelfth Annual Essay Competition. Deadline Oct. 1, 2010.

RT @ALALibrary: RT @lorcanD: Paul Courant: economic perspectives on academic libraries. video, audio, slides. http://bit.ly/auWjl7  #oclcr

Vast Public Indifference: Lydia Dyar: NOT an Enemy to Her Country http://bit.ly/95eLBT

Rare Lincoln Pamphlet Discovered, Highlights at the Wisconsin Historical Society: http://bit.ly/cVRYU4

Productive Confusion: Using a Quasi-Legal Source in a Women’s History Classroom. Project MUSE: http://bit.ly/cvIMSG

RT @USCLibraries: Pope Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger) wanted to be a librarian: http://bit.ly/cq6md3

18th-century American Women: London Prints, Printmakers & Macaroni http://bit.ly/aiFHNM

Early American Criminals: The Race of Johnson Green, Burglar http://bit.ly/cID76u

Post: #readex: HMS Titanic and Deepwater Horizon: Lessons of Limited Liability Lost to History http://bit.ly/drWPGw

19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression symposium in Tennessee http://bit.ly/b62ht9

RT @Boston1775: What to do with the site of George Washington’s childhood home? http://bit.ly/c2fSrm

RT @wpjenna: RT @HuffPostCollege: Gawk-worthy or not? The most beautiful campuses: http://bit.ly/awPKge

Walking from Boston to Washington. Lincoln wins and Weston walks. 470 miles in 10 days. AAS: http://b2l.me/aey3eq

Shiny, Appy People: Library of Congress Gets iPhone App. LOC Blog: http://bit.ly/98FoMn

Early American Imprints at the Library Company: science, witchcraft, sex manual: http://bit.ly/9oJiGv

The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest http://bit.ly/apeA5z

Winners of the USA.gov Celebrate America photo contest: http://bit.ly/a3rGly

Is There A Social Media Librarian In Your Library’s Future? ACRL blog: http://bit.ly/ceasrL

A Phrase for the Ages: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum http://nblo.gs/6saaw

Academics Build Blog-to-eBook Publishing Tool in One Week – Science and Tech – The Atlantic: http://bit.ly/95vIYU

RT @AHAhistorians: Who are the most memorable fictional history teachers in film, television, and novels? Share your thoughts, & see ours http://bit.ly/cSUplS

RT @amlibraries: The magic of the library: A fun video from the University of Bergen: http://bit.ly/c75FrZ

Teaching resources and syllabi relevant to Early American Topics. From Society of Early Americanists: http://bit.ly/a9RB5n

Post: #readex: Early American newspaper issue takes $12,300 at auction http://bit.ly/d236Cm

Videos from first Compleat Biographer Conference now available for viewing. http://bit.ly/bVPoNv

Slate’s contest to rewrite the Declaration of Independence in a single tweet. Winners: http://www.slate.com/id/2258811

Brief history of data visualization, from chart in 1786 to electoral map in 2008 http://bit.ly/9n6IOt

RT @AHAhistorians: What Do We Know about History in the Schools? Robert B. Townsend looks into it. http://bit.ly/bgvK6F

“A rash and dreadful act for a woman”: 1915 Woman Suffrage Parade in Boston. Mass Historical http://bit.ly/bmmLcj

Photographs of 70 survivors of Revolutionary War. The Last Muster. Review: http://bit.ly/9EvOyO

Anti-slavery poem. Broadside 1795. “Still with Afric’s love I burn” Notes for Bibliophiles: http://bit.ly/coLsSY

RT @Researchtweeter: If you work in an academic library, check out the top 10 trends for 2010 from ACRL http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/6/286.short

The Historical Society: American Immigration in Historical Perspective http://bit.ly/9gjGmX

1848 Daguerreotypes Bring Middle America’s Past to Life http://shar.es/0nzna

Yesterday’s Papers: Cartoonists of 1925 http://bit.ly/9AUFrc

High Anxiety: American Bibliophobia – http://b2l.me/ads3bj

Early American Writings: The Chopping Bee http://bit.ly/dllbKT

California Newsreel – IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE: http://bit.ly/bPXvPI

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