The Return of Friday Links
What can we say, December is a busy time of year! We’re back in action, though, with some of our favorite history-related posts:
Leah N:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frederick Douglass, and Henry David Thoreau reflect on the martyrdom of John Brown (from Reader’s Almanac, the very lively blog of The Library of America series).
Cartoonograph about U.S. spending on oil, 1924, pen and ink drawing by Elizabeth Sabin Goodwin, Smithsonian Institution Archives, RU 7091, Image no. SIA 2010-3711.
I really enjoyed this blog post about Jazz Age “cartoonographs” created by Elizabeth Sabin Goodwin that have recently been identified in the Smithsonian’s holdings. Cartoonographs combined official statistics with comics-style renderings, and often a little humor, to convey “current economic and social trends” of the 1920s. To see an example–one that depressingly confirms how long the U.S. has been over-consuming oil and engaging in questionable foreign policy choices to procure more–see Goodwin’s 1924 cartoon at right.
Last 5 posts by Leah Nahmias
- Teaching "What This Cruel War Was Over" - March 28th, 2011
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