The Man Who Sold America – Birth of Modern Advertising – WSJ book review http://on.wsj.com/8Xgm6w
A Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading in America – http://b2l.me/acz2ea
Let the Decision Fall – 14th amendment. New OUP post by LeeAnna Keith, The Colfax Massacre http://shar.es/mLatR
Notes for Bibliophiles: ALMOST as popular (and useful) as the Bible! Almanacs http://bit.ly/cs3dZ4
The Future of the Academic Library – Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/8YgegS
Most amazing libraries in the world – slideshow – http://huff.to/7jILIq Huffpost
RT @NewsResearch @multcolib purchased the @oregonian digital archives!! You can now access all articles, photo & ads between 1861 & 1972 http://is.gd/dP4X2
Brooklyn Librarians Organize Skill Share Event To Help Job-Hunting Peers: http://bit.ly/9Ctbp6
The Fate of Early American Blasphemers, or Those Who Challenged God! http://bit.ly/9p3L1A
A Library Thomas Jefferson Would Love. Booked – Forbes.com http://bit.ly/aubJNW
Three centuries of reading in America. New online AAS exhibit. A Place of Reading: http://bit.ly/cWzwGm
Social history told through our relationship to light. New book by Brox: Brilliant – http://nyti.ms/8XCDm5
Post: #readex: Boston Honors its First African American Police Officer http://bit.ly/aS7tWl
RT @archivesnews: Check out the all new and much improved Federal Register 2.0! http://www.federalregister.gov/
Camera app puts you in the footsteps of history – New Scientist: http://bit.ly/97kQiu
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RT @librarycongress: Coolidge Is Focus of Discussion on Civility in Politics: Published by the National Notary Association, “Why Coolid… http://bit.ly/c7NkV7
“Lost” Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers? http://bit.ly/cuoSjV via @NatGeoSociety
Iowa museum showcases Norwegian history in U.S. From ColumbiaTribune.com: http://bit.ly/cjYcw7
Sturua examines U.S. cultural debt. Izvestiya (Moscow, 1986) in FBIS Daily Reports http://bit.ly/cRZmP5
Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins opens at LACMA. Includes Wrestlers, 1899 http://bit.ly/dwl06K
“Negro sit-down strikes spread” 1960 – Charles Sherrod in America’s Historical Newspapers http://bit.ly/9VoZAn
19th-century stereoscopic photos. Village Green, Preserved: Brian May’s Photo Recovery http://nyti.ms/bUe13Z
“Yoga – Living without Food, Water or Air” (Northern Christian Advocate, 1880) http://bit.ly/aNGDSC
America’s expanding watermelons: 63 to 107 lbs: 1859 http://bit.ly/brUKIH and 1908 http://bit.ly/bW2goz
Pioneering cluster balloonists from the past 7 decades: Air & Space Smithsonian: The Drifters http://bit.ly/d8Cd2I
RT @boingboing Beans are bullets: War-era food posters – Boing Boing http://bit.ly/9rrMrl
How the fur trade helped shape America – The Boston Globe http://shar.es/mMjUb
Video tour of Rare Books in Yale Law Library http://youtu.be/umNtbmhqf1c
RT @Boston1775 Eius Liber, new blog on grad-studenting in New England intellectual history: http://eiusliber.blogspot.com/
Dred Scott Case with Justice Breyer | C-SPAN Classroom: http://cs.pn/bADWEG
When Lindy Dared: How America’s reputation soared – Review of The Flight of the Century http://on.wsj.com/bYMvOc
RT @Boston1775 NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW on Jack Rakove’s REVOLUTIONARIES: http://nyti.ms/a26aA5 “The Revolution made them as much as they made the Revolution.”
One of first newspaper movies (Five Star Final, 1932) Rarely seen film released from Warner vault http://b.globe.com/ca82oc
The road most taken – WashPost reviews The King’s Best Highway – Boston Post Road http://bit.ly/cJ4VPs
Will Future Generations Lose Historical Records Of To-Day? NYT July 1910 http://bit.ly/aoN5pX
Library of America launches a blog: Reader’s Almanac – Seeking the Enduring http://blog.loa.org
Notes for Bibliophiles: Take Me Out to the Ball Game! http://bit.ly/dj1Fen
1907: Mrs. Sage Heads Taxpayers’ List. Pays more than Carnegie, Rockefeller http://bit.ly/bcDAHq
RT @NSArchive: Document Friday!! #FBI #doxs: Nixon’s Application to be a G-Man and join the FBI (He was rejected). http://bit.ly/9UHV6s
Recalling discoveries in NYC of 18th-century and other artifacts. Raiders of the Lost City http://nyti.ms/9AO3WB
Pre-1950 American Cities – 77 photographs from the National Archives http://bit.ly/aRD09J
Senate Historical Offices release latest Foreign Relations Committee sessions of once classified 1968 testimony http://bit.ly/dsiyoU
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