tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20546682705512449462024-03-07T03:53:12.424-05:00another history blogAnother History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-64189436806735421272009-08-07T16:06:00.004-05:002009-08-07T16:25:35.208-05:00that looks like "Peach Papers," doesn't it?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd69hliautBMDSeWIkFbTzIzBgl61gkQEcwXlqJzaWE1J3m-NbEzbJp7kzqo2vkYibQUJKaAz_CiM805ZRnRJbUMPMUwUFn2Svb2BCjVS4OYIb-zVGRA5thkb9uvTTquPDKwNvjr-ysXQ/s1600-h/519l5ZIe6TL._SL500_AA240_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd69hliautBMDSeWIkFbTzIzBgl61gkQEcwXlqJzaWE1J3m-NbEzbJp7kzqo2vkYibQUJKaAz_CiM805ZRnRJbUMPMUwUFn2Svb2BCjVS4OYIb-zVGRA5thkb9uvTTquPDKwNvjr-ysXQ/s400/519l5ZIe6TL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367335454536592162" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" >Hot off the (University of South Carolina) Press: a new edition of <a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2009/3835.html">Bill Arp's Peace Papers</a>, with an introduction by me.</span>Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-68406844952412588892009-07-29T18:01:00.001-05:002017-11-29T09:19:49.118-05:00loving my studentsI met for the last time yesterday with my methodology class. It was a good group of students. In lieu of a final exam, we talked about "what we've learned this semester." As part of the discussion, I read out loud the long list of course objectives. After the one about "students will learn to use Chicago style (Turabian) footnotes," one student said she had a great idea for a t-shirt slogan: "Historians do it Chicago style." Man, I'm going to miss them.Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-74306677901394453512009-05-24T16:40:00.010-05:002009-06-03T10:38:37.541-05:00worst record ever?Bob Purse, writing at WFMU's <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/05/george-w-husak-mp3s.html">Beware of the Blog</a>, describes his experiences with what could well be the worst record ever made.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >My story begins well over 25 years ago, back to the day when I heard Dr. Demento play an excerpt of a 45 called "I'm Surfing" by George W. Husak. This was during a segment on some of the worst records in his collection. I was intrigued, and was quite glad when, several years later, the good doctor played the record in its entirety, prefacing it with the following (edited) comments:</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" > "If you asked me, 'what is the worst musical performance that was ever actually released on a 45 … a record that somebody actually expected somebody to go out and buy,' this might well be my choice. It's from some time in the early to mid '60's, and it came out on a label based in San Francisco. The perpetrator of this truly incredible performance is one George W. Husak."</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Here is that record.... </span><br /><br />Bob Purse <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/05/george-w-husak-mp3s.html">has posted</a> an <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqsyRfNGEGaQaiHVsWDSJVHoLzan5-dlqphZshRl6RSuBCR8gnORiWYat7kqf1I_ZEEQgLVpoqa_oJrfU7k7dNcIJ6Dv8G21WVViE9a-1HzT5yhI_w42LR-vkum-gt4M1vRWojfHSmig/s1600-h/untitled.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqsyRfNGEGaQaiHVsWDSJVHoLzan5-dlqphZshRl6RSuBCR8gnORiWYat7kqf1I_ZEEQgLVpoqa_oJrfU7k7dNcIJ6Dv8G21WVViE9a-1HzT5yhI_w42LR-vkum-gt4M1vRWojfHSmig/s400/untitled.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339509851412899026" border="0" /></a>MP3 of "I'm Surfing," and oh my god, it's awful.<br /><br />But that's not all. He found a copy of this LP, <span style="font-style: italic;">George's Album</span>. A dozen songs, all in that inimitable Husak style. <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/05/george-w-husak-mp3s.html">Hear Georga and Anton</a> give Bob Wills's "San Antonio Rose" and Hank Williams's "Cold, Cold Heart" that special Husak treatment. <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/05/george-w-husak-mp3s.html">Enjoy</a>.<br /><br />(On the WFMU blog, it's quickest to click on the little blue box in front of the title.)Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-35493750134639235222009-05-18T14:17:00.009-05:002009-06-03T08:56:59.531-05:00The Food of a Younger Nation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwgF_23nta7mmlJp3hQOvN-cJZfVtDQDiH8mcTgcIG__LhoIc03IdCzdOMLEQa3-rxOWFKXt8ZkJ3mcojZKneuRS3uz4cBnta2lXE6FUrLu_UluBxUEszdvPOx4saJ8qXh3W9QL5b8pg/s1600-h/food+delete.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwgF_23nta7mmlJp3hQOvN-cJZfVtDQDiH8mcTgcIG__LhoIc03IdCzdOMLEQa3-rxOWFKXt8ZkJ3mcojZKneuRS3uz4cBnta2lXE6FUrLu_UluBxUEszdvPOx4saJ8qXh3W9QL5b8pg/s400/food+delete.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337245631506712962" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Mark Kurlansky, author of two of the best-known <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Commodity-History/lm/R3MOC7Y25WHK44">commodity histories</a> </span><br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cod-Biography-Fish-Changed-World/dp/0140275010/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242674948&sr=1-2"><i>Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World</i></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/0142001619/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242674948&sr=1-3"><i>Salt: A World History</i></a>)</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, is just out with a brand new book that should get a lot of attention. <a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594488658,00.html?The_Food_of_a_Younger_Land_Mark_Kurlansky"><i>The Food of a Younger Nation</i></a> “</span><span class="bookcopy" style="font-size:100%;">takes </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">us back to the food and eating </span>habits of a younger <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation’s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it.”</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">From the publisher’s description:<u1:p></u1:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">“In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers’ Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across <st1:country-region><st1:place><st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called ‘America Eats,’ was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and never completed.</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;">“The Food of a <st1:place><st1:placename><st1:place><st1:placename>Younger</st1:placename></st1:place> <st1:placetype><st1:placetype>Land</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placename></st1:place> unearths this forgotten literary and historical treasure and brings it to exuberant life. Mark Kurlansky’s brilliant book captures these remarkable stories, and combined with authentic recipes, anecdotes, photos, and his own musings and analysis, evokes a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food and the grocery superstore was a thing of the future. Kurlansky serves as a guide to this hearty and poignant look at the country’s roots.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">“From <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>New York</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> automats to Georgia Coca-Cola parties, from <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>Arkansas</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> possum-eating clubs to <st1:place><st1:place>Puget Sound</st1:place></st1:place><st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place> </st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state></span><span style="font-size:100%;">salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>South Carolina</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> barbecues, the WPA writers found Americans in their regional niches and eating an enormous diversity of meals. From <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>Mississippi</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> chittlins to <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>Indiana</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> persimmon puddings, <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>Maine</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> lobsters, and <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>Montana</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and communities of American food.”<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The book reminds me of my friend Joe Dabney’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Smokehouse-Spoon-Bread-Scuppernong-Wine/dp/1581826672/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1242675793&sr=8-2">Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Appalachian Cooking</a>, which won a James A. Beard Award (as Kurlansky did for <i>Cod</i>). I get hungry whenever I read Joe’s book, and now the same thing happens with Kurlansky’s. My <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>North Carolina</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state><o:p></o:p> grandmother made “Kentucky Wilted Lettuce”--leaf lettuce, torn, covered with sliced green onions and then “wilted” with hot bacon grease. She taught me how to put crumbled cornbread in buttermilk. I haven’t had wilted lettuce or cornbread in buttermilk in a long time.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The book describes “Oyster Stew Supreme at Grand Central, New York” and oyster roasts in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Georgia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <st1:state><st1:place>Alabama</st1:place></st1:state>, and <st1:state><st1:place>North Carolina</st1:place></st1:state>, as well as the other kind of culinary oysters--</span><span style="font-size:100%;">“</span><span style="font-size:100%;">Kentucky Oysters” and “Oklahoma Prairie Oysters.” I’m a big fan of the first kind of oyster.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">It's hard to believe that these wonderful pieces have remained unpublished for seventy years. Kurlansky came across them when he was working on <span style="font-style: italic;">Choice Cuts</span>, a best-of collection of food writing through history. I’m glad he did, and that he had the sense to put them together into this book. A friend who teaches American Studies saw the book on my desk and said that she might use it in one of her classes. I can see that. Students would love it, and I can imagine a class drawing all sorts of observations about American culture(s) from the book. Plus it would be fun, as the piece in the book goes on for nearly 400 words about <st1:state><st1:place><st1:state><st1:place>Kentucky</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state> oysters without saying that they are hog testicles.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-37414998540661613672009-05-17T14:38:00.011-05:002009-05-17T14:54:16.650-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (8)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpOZP6JWSEPC-6qx9JxQmLlONVvslhrdI3lwi8bWUqu7uwzIFbfn9uHatn9Y02V4S3J2UBKslgNXzrHRxaWN0v9m5n6NmKwXqwtFRdLokxjNqmv-x-v4tnBSU91d6vs_PpHQARXW1OADk/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpOZP6JWSEPC-6qx9JxQmLlONVvslhrdI3lwi8bWUqu7uwzIFbfn9uHatn9Y02V4S3J2UBKslgNXzrHRxaWN0v9m5n6NmKwXqwtFRdLokxjNqmv-x-v4tnBSU91d6vs_PpHQARXW1OADk/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336880342869365986" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Tribune</span>, July 7, 1921<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yet another set of advertisements that used some variation of </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a>, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nocsowgHPAiusuQaYvpxZYAD1tbqtLUevmPnMJ02zlOp1I_GbNTMFYhd8BIeBX6eHoKfnxsZypf8Lv3pMaQundZw7UepVg4ZlmB7m1OH7RiIGVX8SuoEB6Qyjh-jhXH8PNv4XYAgPBg/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nocsowgHPAiusuQaYvpxZYAD1tbqtLUevmPnMJ02zlOp1I_GbNTMFYhd8BIeBX6eHoKfnxsZypf8Lv3pMaQundZw7UepVg4ZlmB7m1OH7RiIGVX8SuoEB6Qyjh-jhXH8PNv4XYAgPBg/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336881065130381282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Tribune</span>, April 6, 1910<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYjmj_c9JbDaFjl9QRcR9UALPnb9cOSjiYiDZlBVyfBKarjcLe6c4djgKVHPhKIIcoPC-11UUN8E1YEvAyVM8p1zg1XoQmqiEHF1oopUjTQj3YiSrYGyfQnyjR2Gt_usuf36DJc-xPEuY/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 87px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYjmj_c9JbDaFjl9QRcR9UALPnb9cOSjiYiDZlBVyfBKarjcLe6c4djgKVHPhKIIcoPC-11UUN8E1YEvAyVM8p1zg1XoQmqiEHF1oopUjTQj3YiSrYGyfQnyjR2Gt_usuf36DJc-xPEuY/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336882051685188162" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, February 28, 1909<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_O3OTJB3Ft3L6ye0-u91kLlGu3tdmCH72my14iqVBJCEtyd9rMLjvdyVH58PmCO1OP4mRvrOJhC5U4NAwb3mnzpbrY8_IxJ_jKoTPb40nr-a7orPCrxq-KIgkYN_z1unR-ho_MKSVcYk/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_O3OTJB3Ft3L6ye0-u91kLlGu3tdmCH72my14iqVBJCEtyd9rMLjvdyVH58PmCO1OP4mRvrOJhC5U4NAwb3mnzpbrY8_IxJ_jKoTPb40nr-a7orPCrxq-KIgkYN_z1unR-ho_MKSVcYk/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336882759453345538" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, November 30, 1907Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-40817930029003941342009-05-05T09:25:00.009-05:002012-03-12T13:10:36.744-05:00those crass insurance companies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXSTFPqh8tnxEUsWZkxlHjCm3_cNCl1CQKp-aWNmonFRo9IpFpeXb7vJpjOO9iSnX_Jdm3bv2U6XSLPo0cNKuWd8G5GWH-V2el007rYpHK2Tmf2ZsDoIg0WkqxwF7oGiZBs3KaBEtk4RM/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXSTFPqh8tnxEUsWZkxlHjCm3_cNCl1CQKp-aWNmonFRo9IpFpeXb7vJpjOO9iSnX_Jdm3bv2U6XSLPo0cNKuWd8G5GWH-V2el007rYpHK2Tmf2ZsDoIg0WkqxwF7oGiZBs3KaBEtk4RM/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332346155870232930" border="0" /></a><br />Click image to embiggen.<br /><br />On April 12, 1899, Alfred Cranford was allegedly murdered (and his wife, Mittie, raped) by Sam Hose, who would pay with his life in one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hose">most horrific lynchings</a> in Georgia history. One of the generally unknown parts of that horrible story is the way the life insurance company used the event for advertising.<br /><br />This ad, from the <span style="font-style: italic;">Atlanta Constitution</span>, May 19, 1899, contains a letter from Mittie Cranford thanking the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for its prompt and courteous payment of the claim. "I can truthfully say that the beneficent results of life insurance were never more fittingly bestowed than in my case," she wrote, "as this policy comes like a god-send to assist me in educating and bringing up my four little children."<br /><br />My favorite part: the box in the upper right corner. "A Side Light on the Cranford-Hose Tragedy / The Thoughtful Husband -- The Thankful Widow." "A Splendid Investment"! For a $2,000 policy, Alfred Cranford paid only $84 in premiums, giving a "Profit over Cost" of $1,916.Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-39176359105280727262009-04-29T16:43:00.003-05:002009-04-29T22:06:21.819-05:00spell checker epic failLast week of classes, so I'm sitting here trying to grade three sets of papers while I take care of those students who stop by my office to ask (as the jailer at Philippi asked Paul), "Sir, what must I do to be saved?"<br /><br />I think this is the winner for the semester. I can't believe anything will top this. A student referred in a paper to the Second Seminole War, and it came out "Second Seminal War."Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-21953719454456433672009-04-18T13:37:00.011-05:002009-04-18T13:57:22.639-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (7)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BsLVbrcBR61y_K8zScPO47e9Trvk1HLmDxahiwG2wlNMoMBafaNbsYHfBf7F37ge04KQX3Y-710AtBf3CgY2GXlC5CBveKHev_I0s4lzESR9JWpWYHsWnbX4m-5gOWWCp7RO_abuTcs/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BsLVbrcBR61y_K8zScPO47e9Trvk1HLmDxahiwG2wlNMoMBafaNbsYHfBf7F37ge04KQX3Y-710AtBf3CgY2GXlC5CBveKHev_I0s4lzESR9JWpWYHsWnbX4m-5gOWWCp7RO_abuTcs/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326103093828266050" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Daily Tribune</span>, May 14, 1899<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yet another set of advertisements that used some variation of </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a>, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNyh8Lxwt8J2GY2_hFIRfCovXe-pQquN506_4OaullJZxVG8JoFQ37kOfeLn5zia9HyFxMtozKvosV2bbEWRyTIij-dmcpuUHLjmLymy3COHaPa-V7AVgxBg8Bxp_qOitjFc31seEIYHk/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNyh8Lxwt8J2GY2_hFIRfCovXe-pQquN506_4OaullJZxVG8JoFQ37kOfeLn5zia9HyFxMtozKvosV2bbEWRyTIij-dmcpuUHLjmLymy3COHaPa-V7AVgxBg8Bxp_qOitjFc31seEIYHk/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326103808770625874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, Feb. 12, 1906<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99pBGV4_hWrjgxYPeno9-USjQdAXdWYA_o7yHMtiVZBR03n8iJIZcBC-7MePVLXMnday2GQsJRM2Vx27ltufF7zHfXrQacgedDrSKEgNpgAoLMRup-xStvdXtUnJEgFW8ZQ0xwjaHQSI/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99pBGV4_hWrjgxYPeno9-USjQdAXdWYA_o7yHMtiVZBR03n8iJIZcBC-7MePVLXMnday2GQsJRM2Vx27ltufF7zHfXrQacgedDrSKEgNpgAoLMRup-xStvdXtUnJEgFW8ZQ0xwjaHQSI/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326104611403154850" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Atlanta Constitution</span>, Jan. 1, 1911<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkx7WuJoFDsXmL5c5wtfxjHst5Ia-EY2vS3kF2JYQnXr7fBsgBoCw37ZoWFgpQboif6oDSpOglBvYv-puAlQVCiuQ8xvF7LgzVq0XGBG0vAn9rljp5WTGewhjorjspjBpi81ELVRkOSo/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkx7WuJoFDsXmL5c5wtfxjHst5Ia-EY2vS3kF2JYQnXr7fBsgBoCw37ZoWFgpQboif6oDSpOglBvYv-puAlQVCiuQ8xvF7LgzVq0XGBG0vAn9rljp5WTGewhjorjspjBpi81ELVRkOSo/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326105369487238898" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Daily Tribune</span>, March 22, 1920<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAN8eNWdY7J7VCM-uoFWmy29toGTD1WD1R_ijdXzmeGm5xC3SfuRGv2niKr2ABGTS92XCBAx9Lqszim9J6GpshW9J4z8uox5YGIUQ-_FGCFN9NZvuBu4LhBtT_2KxtqaEV25AewsT5I8A/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAN8eNWdY7J7VCM-uoFWmy29toGTD1WD1R_ijdXzmeGm5xC3SfuRGv2niKr2ABGTS92XCBAx9Lqszim9J6GpshW9J4z8uox5YGIUQ-_FGCFN9NZvuBu4LhBtT_2KxtqaEV25AewsT5I8A/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326106318634614786" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, Nov. 14, 1909Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-56685559530221556352009-04-18T13:06:00.005-05:002009-04-18T13:17:00.823-05:00an old joke, updatedRick Perry, Texas governor -- voted "most likely to secede" by his high school class<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4StmkvmEYllWT74btdLaZESmY-fb44SCgkAI587eaZ5-bWRNpdRnIXvZ9ki44ixF3kz5_t1wzh3E3a3Y1gH90ABf1PoTLEjQhnM8-0-mfcG7XcuwKrQray5uoCEjqHbzyQAZpsSe37w/s1600-h/perry.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4StmkvmEYllWT74btdLaZESmY-fb44SCgkAI587eaZ5-bWRNpdRnIXvZ9ki44ixF3kz5_t1wzh3E3a3Y1gH90ABf1PoTLEjQhnM8-0-mfcG7XcuwKrQray5uoCEjqHbzyQAZpsSe37w/s400/perry.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326095833574181698" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/gov-rick-perry-texas-coul_n_187490.html">"There's a lot of different scenarios. We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that."</a>Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-85264718555335112092009-04-11T17:30:00.013-05:002009-04-11T17:49:53.676-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (6)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AlzLzb7Y0HTWH_tIBNRMm9J6QD9e-rQ5wd_9B4Ys2jQmfQTx8Ak6IWTbDtTIKRynTbRvX79XoUg0WII9Mx2Rz22ji2XLbKQCgZ8sPRMUJyzE4QwzGtFUSBSO3dobZxZ5bI-K-G3TQuQ/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AlzLzb7Y0HTWH_tIBNRMm9J6QD9e-rQ5wd_9B4Ys2jQmfQTx8Ak6IWTbDtTIKRynTbRvX79XoUg0WII9Mx2Rz22ji2XLbKQCgZ8sPRMUJyzE4QwzGtFUSBSO3dobZxZ5bI-K-G3TQuQ/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323565651698414706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Atlanta Constitution</span>, Feb. 15, 1898<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Yet another set of advertisements that used some variation of <a href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a>, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2eLle73ZEh4GpVRQl2dgM-DbnK6bzFexpHePH13JeYpCHRrX0IexvskXQ9H59_onKbkF_BklScZ_20chKhx151kL-3T1Rr7bDnGkJOlYfU4oTtlD8JOd2Xz8faTVBmdgXjYugxVTwUeI/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 366px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2eLle73ZEh4GpVRQl2dgM-DbnK6bzFexpHePH13JeYpCHRrX0IexvskXQ9H59_onKbkF_BklScZ_20chKhx151kL-3T1Rr7bDnGkJOlYfU4oTtlD8JOd2Xz8faTVBmdgXjYugxVTwUeI/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323566286671617218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, Jan. 20, 1897<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZho0hQ3SQ6_5sVeMa9WE9kbygNMU9PpLhSFUIRI-j4VX9DCWG2QNjSAymPVPFj6DMCF0J8NUPzVuRKrzZBuE-rrqX6CaTrVYX3gPduPIyqXfb1Mt2CVrN274oc1xAzFRm1qJNuwL2q7M/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZho0hQ3SQ6_5sVeMa9WE9kbygNMU9PpLhSFUIRI-j4VX9DCWG2QNjSAymPVPFj6DMCF0J8NUPzVuRKrzZBuE-rrqX6CaTrVYX3gPduPIyqXfb1Mt2CVrN274oc1xAzFRm1qJNuwL2q7M/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323567443709174610" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, Dec. 25, 1893<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggsBZZX27Zgi8zVpjMUzhFPWurcEcDB26khOyDwZdQBv3IzAaTqReKSWn42RA5jWP1B7WT9Vth0vltPiSJX9CorVUNPvtKaHFnC9-KVLUoqb5u487F0bYjKu0_ttPIqm3DZEc0NbBts7s/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggsBZZX27Zgi8zVpjMUzhFPWurcEcDB26khOyDwZdQBv3IzAaTqReKSWn42RA5jWP1B7WT9Vth0vltPiSJX9CorVUNPvtKaHFnC9-KVLUoqb5u487F0bYjKu0_ttPIqm3DZEc0NbBts7s/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323568316752086098" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Daily Tribune</span>, Aug. 28, 1931Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-3030090252414098062009-04-09T15:05:00.011-05:002009-04-10T05:48:08.633-05:0012-step program for apostrophe abuse<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >"Programme," actually, because Lauren is British.</span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ballywick.com/blog/misc-writing/apostrophe-crime-12-step-programme/">This is just beautiful</a></span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >. I'm reading and grading papers this afternoon, and I just wrote, for the umpteenth time, "Do not use an apostrophe to create plurals!" Since I can't drink for a few more hours, stumbling on this while taking a brief </span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.apostropheabuse.com/">Apostrophe Abuse</a></span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > break was, from a mental health standpoint, most fortuitous.</span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Step 1 --</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >1. Admit you have a problem - It’s ok, you’re in the safety of your anonymous interwebbed life. I won’t know. Just admit to yourself, out loud:</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"> My name is X and I don’t know how to use an apostrophe. I force them into plural words where they don’t want to go. Yes, that’s me, I commit these crimes because I don’t know any better. I want help.</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Steps 2-12 <a href="http://www.ballywick.com/blog/misc-writing/apostrophe-crime-12-step-programme/">here</a>. </span></span>Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-73108284961928572772009-04-09T09:03:00.005-05:002009-04-09T09:14:02.786-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (5)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRKpGAj3OjoXYnwqAKMR_kWDF2lIr_71Q_GktE0jWkVb_jJS27iNc5rEMKrcvwMAjiadoKVZ8_plfESqRCROXkRlJMd89QtUfftHnN5SBtRFYq2UvvwQqjTryyFo8k1LcrmEH96BUumc/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRKpGAj3OjoXYnwqAKMR_kWDF2lIr_71Q_GktE0jWkVb_jJS27iNc5rEMKrcvwMAjiadoKVZ8_plfESqRCROXkRlJMd89QtUfftHnN5SBtRFYq2UvvwQqjTryyFo8k1LcrmEH96BUumc/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322692209248776642" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, November 28, 1897<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A special Macy's and Gimbels edition of advertisements that used some variation of <a href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a>, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDFIJtXvfFYmoa8E_hPtoEfXyDtLFo36ru5znLmI7kopjAyVkoXyAYRysIHoa_zbyak5SRZn8xunMI7KyLxOBzGFHyp13hRWOi_dbzlxFPzJ6Nzcd81U3F24oOtUOK6vY9H48SyXT4G8/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDFIJtXvfFYmoa8E_hPtoEfXyDtLFo36ru5znLmI7kopjAyVkoXyAYRysIHoa_zbyak5SRZn8xunMI7KyLxOBzGFHyp13hRWOi_dbzlxFPzJ6Nzcd81U3F24oOtUOK6vY9H48SyXT4G8/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322693576626947522" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, December 6, 1930Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-31907311583047155472009-04-05T09:18:00.017-05:002009-04-05T18:44:53.681-05:00afromentionedYesterday morning, on <a href="http://www.cartalk.com/">Car Talk</a>, one of the guys (Tommy, I think) used the word "aforementioned," except he pronounced it "afromentioned." I've heard him do it before, and I've heard it from one or two other speakers.<br /><br />OK, I understand that people sometimes reverse sounds when they talk, and it's especially believable when they're reading from a slightly-unfamiliar script. But no one would make this mistake in writing, right?<br /><br />Wrong. A quick Google search turns up over 1200 "afromentioned" and variations. Not all are wrong. Someone uses "Afromentioned" as a screen name; a screen name "afro" leads to the construction "afro mentioned...."; and I think a few of these were intended as jokes. But most meant "aforementioned."<br /><br />A few examples:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/20250734/notebook_naked_cowboy.htm">The Afro mentioned cowboy . . . .</a> (This is from a transcript of a Katie Couric on-air piece. The short video is available, and yes, she says "afro mentioned.")<br /><br /><a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0059037/usercomments?filter=love">Next to the afro-mentioned McQueen and Robinson, there's the always reliable Karl Malden . . . .</a> (from a comment on imdb.com)<br /><a href="http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6992331/description.html"><br />This layer 27 may not be formed thick owing to the afro-mentioned reason . . . . </a> (from a US patent)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.oamp.org/Scholarship_Criteria.htm">A sixty (60) day notice explanation for vote will be made to the afro mentioned members.</a><br /><a href="http://www.guitarworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=59347&start=15&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&view=print"><br />i believe the afro mentioned list of songs is pretty good.</a><br /><br />I searched the aforementioned "afromentioned" in the <a href="http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/">Eggcorn Database</a>, but I don't see it there.Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-13565081105485802402009-04-04T16:22:00.009-05:002009-04-04T20:14:53.976-05:00The Responsibilities of American CitizenshipA short film I'm going to show my class on Monday. Produced by the National Education Program and distributed in 1955, the film vividly shows how the Cold War affected American society. There's so much to talk about here--religion (notice that "fundamental belief in God" is at the base of the building blocks that support "the American way of life"), economic prosperity, bad haircuts, and so much more. An infuriating line is at 6:25: "Private ownership diffuses the wealth and economic power over the very widest area." What??<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="315" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf" w3c="true" flashvars='config={"key":"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4","playlist":[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/Responsi1955/format=Thumbnail?.jpg","autoPlay":true,"scaling":"fit"},{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/Responsi1955/Responsi1955_512kb.mp4","autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit"}],"clip":{"autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit"},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"plugins":{"audio":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf"},"controls":{"playlist":false,"fullscreen":true,"gloss":"high","backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"medium","sliderColor":"0x777777","progressColor":"0x777777","timeColor":"0xeeeeee","durationColor":"0x01DAFF","buttonColor":"0x333333","buttonOverColor":"0x505050"}},"contextMenu":[{"Item Responsi1955 at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}'> </embed><br /><br />video from the amazing <a href="http://www.archive.org/index.php">Internet Archive</a>Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-82090922278278333302009-04-03T13:58:00.024-05:002009-04-03T16:40:44.822-05:00Booker T. and the DBTs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TPOma2-oLTBkHiICjhGwyDVFgECU9Z3iiEZDMuvluafpKgI1ycI9YeQUfbTbfBsnMAyI1rWrm2GpUqj12DUi3_geb4FFcAWefzj4odUP5d6PCyZl2sC0H35smL6JkBIgiXTt0tgFCTg/s1600-h/BTJ_DTB-755468.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TPOma2-oLTBkHiICjhGwyDVFgECU9Z3iiEZDMuvluafpKgI1ycI9YeQUfbTbfBsnMAyI1rWrm2GpUqj12DUi3_geb4FFcAWefzj4odUP5d6PCyZl2sC0H35smL6JkBIgiXTt0tgFCTg/s400/BTJ_DTB-755468.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320581410604736370" border="0" /></a>Through the magic that is <a href="http://www.archive.org/">Internet Archive</a>, four songs from a great show: Booker T. (formerly of Booker T. and the MGs) and the Drive-By Truckers, April 1 at Atlanta's Variety Playhouse. Booker T's new album, <span style="font-style: italic;">Potato Hole</span>, will be released in a few weeks, and they're out promoting it. This was the opening show of the tour. From here, they go to Australia. "Pound It Out" is from the new album; "Green Onions" and "Time Is Tight" are Booker T. classics; "Gravity's Gone" is one of my favorite DBT songs. (DBT played a long second set.) The next day I told folks that I was smiling so hard for those first 75 minutes that my face hurt. <br /><br />Pound It Out<br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf" w3c="true" flashvars="config={"key":"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4","playlist":[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/dbt2009-04-01.flac16/dbt2009-04-01d1t01_vbr.mp3","autoPlay":false}],"clip":{"autoPlay":true},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"plugins":{"audio":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf"},"controls":{"playlist":true,"fullscreen":false,"gloss":"high","backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"medium","sliderColor":"0x777777","progressColor":"0x777777","timeColor":"0xeeeeee","durationColor":"0x01DAFF","buttonColor":"0x333333","buttonOverColor":"0x505050"}},"contextMenu":[{"Item dbt2009-04-01.flac16 at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}" width="350" height="24"></embed><br /><br />Green Onions<br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf" w3c="true" flashvars="config={"key":"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4","playlist":[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/dbt2009-04-01.flac16/dbt2009-04-01d1t02_vbr.mp3","autoPlay":false}],"clip":{"autoPlay":true},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"plugins":{"audio":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf"},"controls":{"playlist":true,"fullscreen":false,"gloss":"high","backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"medium","sliderColor":"0x777777","progressColor":"0x777777","timeColor":"0xeeeeee","durationColor":"0x01DAFF","buttonColor":"0x333333","buttonOverColor":"0x505050"}},"contextMenu":[{"Item dbt2009-04-01.flac16 at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}" width="350" height="24"></embed><br /><br />Time Is Tight<br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf" w3c="true" flashvars="config={"key":"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4","playlist":[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/dbt2009-04-01.flac16/dbt2009-04-01d1t12_vbr.mp3","autoPlay":false}],"clip":{"autoPlay":true},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"plugins":{"audio":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf"},"controls":{"playlist":true,"fullscreen":false,"gloss":"high","backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"medium","sliderColor":"0x777777","progressColor":"0x777777","timeColor":"0xeeeeee","durationColor":"0x01DAFF","buttonColor":"0x333333","buttonOverColor":"0x505050"}},"contextMenu":[{"Item dbt2009-04-01.flac16 at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}" width="350" height="24"></embed><br /><br />Gravity's Gone<br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf" w3c="true" flashvars="config={"key":"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4","playlist":[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/dbt2009-04-01.flac16/dbt2009-04-01d2t10_vbr.mp3","autoPlay":false}],"clip":{"autoPlay":true},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"plugins":{"audio":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf"},"controls":{"playlist":true,"fullscreen":false,"gloss":"high","backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"medium","sliderColor":"0x777777","progressColor":"0x777777","timeColor":"0xeeeeee","durationColor":"0x01DAFF","buttonColor":"0x333333","buttonOverColor":"0x505050"}},"contextMenu":[{"Item dbt2009-04-01.flac16 at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}" width="350" height="24"></embed>Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-47589804692330818872009-04-02T12:42:00.017-05:002009-04-02T14:14:06.834-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (4)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSu6K23tvydYdLb6k1co4rkWpWMbTEF3SuSVUpVizEOrv7fyv8rwQRRcP1bVG3LDVVPCG0edJkeLLfO84zBv9-7Ri4L7_tRkRhfL9txIiiOVZ_UgXDF9WG9gj6HSb3_Zu18u25KJg_It8/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSu6K23tvydYdLb6k1co4rkWpWMbTEF3SuSVUpVizEOrv7fyv8rwQRRcP1bVG3LDVVPCG0edJkeLLfO84zBv9-7Ri4L7_tRkRhfL9txIiiOVZ_UgXDF9WG9gj6HSb3_Zu18u25KJg_It8/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320168405421430002" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, April 13, 1959<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">A fourth set of advertisements that used some variation of <a href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a>, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidAmfA3WBIv4wwdtVvjrR_qAlV_2KYLpRbWcNnq0xH7BUWTY0BXHJ_UffvOnuPRCNXJNPnvTemBv8PYy-3ujQKcGoBhb2KsmS3Evf2vjgVNQA92XzjiLQzGW4bNaJ6ogyNvpFYcLuhHvI/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidAmfA3WBIv4wwdtVvjrR_qAlV_2KYLpRbWcNnq0xH7BUWTY0BXHJ_UffvOnuPRCNXJNPnvTemBv8PYy-3ujQKcGoBhb2KsmS3Evf2vjgVNQA92XzjiLQzGW4bNaJ6ogyNvpFYcLuhHvI/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320169073927237666" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Tribune</span>, June 7, 1921<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9-eakFWYUHfQUU0M1SlfiiaCGxTbVCHU_qk2pSafGVoNsdBFPa-1wP6lIulagK1DbBf6UA3Q8VxtBWsDHD17BWJ3q2MAOnC6neaGY-p7HgI0ClYllIeoF6G7D1HKat_ZnzLJhnWc5Lk/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9-eakFWYUHfQUU0M1SlfiiaCGxTbVCHU_qk2pSafGVoNsdBFPa-1wP6lIulagK1DbBf6UA3Q8VxtBWsDHD17BWJ3q2MAOnC6neaGY-p7HgI0ClYllIeoF6G7D1HKat_ZnzLJhnWc5Lk/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320169928892772626" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, February 11, 1901<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29k-_An2Rs2E5gLibhnI8FxfyvMmVOILwBSSXXL-RmMc6CRKc9QdUIW-z1YxG1S6rU-l-l49VeU5ikEUJ8D6a3nkoS4KthblkxYkZdXbq0F77xWCT0VpEGE2mz5Anw7Q72_i5FW2x_jA/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29k-_An2Rs2E5gLibhnI8FxfyvMmVOILwBSSXXL-RmMc6CRKc9QdUIW-z1YxG1S6rU-l-l49VeU5ikEUJ8D6a3nkoS4KthblkxYkZdXbq0F77xWCT0VpEGE2mz5Anw7Q72_i5FW2x_jA/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320170949871083266" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Boston Daily Globe</span>, January 18, 1897<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0z6os1gE_ue0_fQE_bHCdmOsv7MF3rIZaxL57VN0hJnBAD5Jo7qZS81ltd5A8jykBazQMRABs634_Ge2EePxhgWACibwlePxv-WkO-tpSvX3Z-vApcJDOsZr1OBZ8G10nNv243hXAHV0/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0z6os1gE_ue0_fQE_bHCdmOsv7MF3rIZaxL57VN0hJnBAD5Jo7qZS81ltd5A8jykBazQMRABs634_Ge2EePxhgWACibwlePxv-WkO-tpSvX3Z-vApcJDOsZr1OBZ8G10nNv243hXAHV0/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320171753870247090" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, June 19, 1907Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-13945736913488163952009-04-01T12:44:00.014-05:002009-04-01T13:11:02.084-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (3)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS5lOWsJcUMQ-ap6BqryJ2W4FlZLqQQXTAeaJ3-rhgtNijpCugqSSPiW_jxvS_Co7icgMgMe45nSPU31b5tGkC5A8vXGRzjS2a7D7jJSMWDzvggEkURvwZ4-xbbm_AlEufKYHW9hLVjqI/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS5lOWsJcUMQ-ap6BqryJ2W4FlZLqQQXTAeaJ3-rhgtNijpCugqSSPiW_jxvS_Co7icgMgMe45nSPU31b5tGkC5A8vXGRzjS2a7D7jJSMWDzvggEkURvwZ4-xbbm_AlEufKYHW9hLVjqI/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319781607338638786" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Tribune</span>, May 1, 1955<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For your enjoyment, another small collection of advertisements that used some variation of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ7NS4fIeFsNK22rzSn2uBS8kDuXasUEDeuXQvP-jDJHhyphenhyphenakPGmH4ghEuhIVNIaqlb4S5XPHWIUELH9su0NeDoYQFD6dkjrMrVZoqCDi-lT4h1SbPm7qmuYu_2Sm9MdIY1KkwLd9SrLHs/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ7NS4fIeFsNK22rzSn2uBS8kDuXasUEDeuXQvP-jDJHhyphenhyphenakPGmH4ghEuhIVNIaqlb4S5XPHWIUELH9su0NeDoYQFD6dkjrMrVZoqCDi-lT4h1SbPm7qmuYu_2Sm9MdIY1KkwLd9SrLHs/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319782350783016258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, February 12, 1902<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALx3AtYu5k5qUhmmDDATWWvSijR8NDuQV__TumOkIvP0ovzbWUylI_57XHOuPEMtdaxRVJhnHqduUHsFw5yMllU78SGCcP6_1GO345rmTnLP2zXFOBwOvREhBPsiHKxA4DNKmIP-cHTA/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALx3AtYu5k5qUhmmDDATWWvSijR8NDuQV__TumOkIvP0ovzbWUylI_57XHOuPEMtdaxRVJhnHqduUHsFw5yMllU78SGCcP6_1GO345rmTnLP2zXFOBwOvREhBPsiHKxA4DNKmIP-cHTA/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319783452707532498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, March 14, 1923<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Hew7GRMkysG8aWJLpamu6jb7P1_sNAp9P_-d1_rx0RtOCatL_YDgCiUoHgKNbtwyVZoYT8WAQzQE3jWsBRIVbD6HzJb5J7i0i-fIaZcxLMN3sHDsB_M6aSXKPjrhudjYqVzhLOb9Oy8/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Hew7GRMkysG8aWJLpamu6jb7P1_sNAp9P_-d1_rx0RtOCatL_YDgCiUoHgKNbtwyVZoYT8WAQzQE3jWsBRIVbD6HzJb5J7i0i-fIaZcxLMN3sHDsB_M6aSXKPjrhudjYqVzhLOb9Oy8/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319784811230584898" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, March 3, 1895<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhue5-3VvJZwBXxbNwslCIspPTsh4UEUoPQrox2kgbEisXfPWTvhBTjYyeNUzSDw3sRyea4RYA9G1bNHGDGNeUANMtRok4Fze6NWKIcXO6O8aOUl-nfppdu1WhUeVF8iq9XE9hPOCz_-ro/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 357px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhue5-3VvJZwBXxbNwslCIspPTsh4UEUoPQrox2kgbEisXfPWTvhBTjYyeNUzSDw3sRyea4RYA9G1bNHGDGNeUANMtRok4Fze6NWKIcXO6O8aOUl-nfppdu1WhUeVF8iq9XE9hPOCz_-ro/s400/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319785528856971106" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Chicago Tribune</span>, July 21, 1943Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-55829868243021617642009-03-31T11:41:00.008-05:002009-03-31T12:16:50.011-05:00five Civil War historians<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJomdVEuBZocN3GNWAcnOZGi8l1nzLiH6bKoMKlFjYeVAUzjS9uyiA1OIC9wsNNrLn_dmrwtDO5B85pA-7wCi4S4O403dG9gL98W_Q_2T4ea59V_8jvx4fyD5QrUrcUYIxBvO84w-epTE/s1600-h/0321090944.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJomdVEuBZocN3GNWAcnOZGi8l1nzLiH6bKoMKlFjYeVAUzjS9uyiA1OIC9wsNNrLn_dmrwtDO5B85pA-7wCi4S4O403dG9gL98W_Q_2T4ea59V_8jvx4fyD5QrUrcUYIxBvO84w-epTE/s320/0321090944.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319395348793906914" border="0" /></a><br />Over at <a href="http://alincolnblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/swinging-around-circle.html">A. Lincoln Blog</a>, Brian Dirck writes about his recent speaking engagements (see, he's a Lincoln scholar, and this was the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, so he's had a lot of invitations to speak), including one here at Kennesaw State University. I especially like the photo, which shows the four speakers at <a href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/comparing-lincoln-and-davis.html">our day-long symposium</a>: William Cooper, Brian Dirck, Stephen Berry, and George Rable. The guy in the middle is my colleague John Fowler, director of KSU's Center for the Study of the Civil War Era.Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-84346726388420522762009-03-30T13:46:00.005-05:002009-04-17T09:28:08.277-05:00Somewhere, over the Bridge to NowhereAn interesting update this past weekend on the old notion that characters and settings in L. Frank Baum's <span style="font-style: italic;">Wonderful Wizard of Oz</span> (1900) <a href="http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm">matched certain real-life people and places in late nineteenth-century America</a>: NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102438008"><span style="font-style: italic;">Weekend Edition</span></a> has an interview with historian Quentin Taylor, who suggests a few analogies between the book and modern America:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;">Sarah Palin — whom Taylor describes as "attractive, wholesome [and] somewhat provincial" — could be Dorothy, while Rep. Barney Frank might be cast in the role of the Cowardly Lion. "Underneath all the bluster, [the Lion is] really a sweetheart," says Taylor.</span><p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;">Though Taylor's not certain where President Obama fits into Baum's novel, he does have a role for the speaker of the House: "There's ... one last character not in the film, but in the book — this is the queen of the field mice. I thought that Speaker Nancy Pelosi fit this the best. After all, she presides over a collection of diminutive, chattering rodents."</p></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"></p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:14;" ></span><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102438008"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>NPR</a> has a link to the five-minute interview with Taylor. If you missed it last Satureday, it's worth checking out!Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-87747443371243835962009-03-27T10:15:00.016-05:002009-03-27T13:20:35.912-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (2)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5lE3-I1c0nGvF2tg08_tu6lq-YoioefGYOcj21zaEJKOvTMiDhlr310O4otQsNXcACpg6AvVzHBK9htox9pTZ524OivFcaeFzFZPc1-od7gUXgLl5mbiw4jThL1bnEWbYzuDxTpekkPM/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5lE3-I1c0nGvF2tg08_tu6lq-YoioefGYOcj21zaEJKOvTMiDhlr310O4otQsNXcACpg6AvVzHBK9htox9pTZ524OivFcaeFzFZPc1-od7gUXgLl5mbiw4jThL1bnEWbYzuDxTpekkPM/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317886739925093234" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Washington Post</span>, December 4, 1946<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For your enjoyment, a small collection of advertisements that used some variation of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYcRtIkJMANYfajETPIV2cOYXY1IsIxtZUXLgg-1VlZz2LZhGsJhUOSK4TpRUUOXWpD7C9FDgWfHrtDgZlSgtLi9LFlCGoS1mALgwyatprT-0iq6RCb9Dgdl1p0zik58zDfUcVqB5fXnc/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYcRtIkJMANYfajETPIV2cOYXY1IsIxtZUXLgg-1VlZz2LZhGsJhUOSK4TpRUUOXWpD7C9FDgWfHrtDgZlSgtLi9LFlCGoS1mALgwyatprT-0iq6RCb9Dgdl1p0zik58zDfUcVqB5fXnc/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317887569544238546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">American Journal of the Medical Sciences</span>, December 1893<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnwhGqED96BUrETONyfblzfksTEPr5xthBw4LyhahOeOndpRhBcrjW9CpdDOp_8rR6ED6-FtH25DbmEGsv5hEo3ynvu4_zcxwPoPJ-03VhYNB2L5pys0x0l51tXVsAL3_oiPaT7abySE/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnwhGqED96BUrETONyfblzfksTEPr5xthBw4LyhahOeOndpRhBcrjW9CpdDOp_8rR6ED6-FtH25DbmEGsv5hEo3ynvu4_zcxwPoPJ-03VhYNB2L5pys0x0l51tXVsAL3_oiPaT7abySE/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317888562479466818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, December 5, 1906<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Nr2ji0VTnp9YQideeZbuUQfPWtFyZhS5EDv-ZyxTTNfqMAUXHr0DvZcHKs2hG506RN_610rbY63rVaVI8HdKn6dNzVCvkz1AceTmhOC7x1PnoHrf54XqdKt00e7zPN45WksrsHqvXz4/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Nr2ji0VTnp9YQideeZbuUQfPWtFyZhS5EDv-ZyxTTNfqMAUXHr0DvZcHKs2hG506RN_610rbY63rVaVI8HdKn6dNzVCvkz1AceTmhOC7x1PnoHrf54XqdKt00e7zPN45WksrsHqvXz4/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317889431560997794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Christian Science Monitor</span>, October 21, 1924<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJZ_oTvrZKH00KMGhdSH_tZaNuyjdUu7X5qKcej9jQKtSjM4UZbG7H6bWPNy5oV7jzLwehXpQtFxozg-_ZKe__RDLaTiFRdHoVBGEAN-vNwy2Swe_nNsaiXF-VP4jNNSHA-vIpdpYz9c/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJZ_oTvrZKH00KMGhdSH_tZaNuyjdUu7X5qKcej9jQKtSjM4UZbG7H6bWPNy5oV7jzLwehXpQtFxozg-_ZKe__RDLaTiFRdHoVBGEAN-vNwy2Swe_nNsaiXF-VP4jNNSHA-vIpdpYz9c/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317890246234767186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, May 29, 1934<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcRncrd4UkY6Qi7k-JxAgMMq4QuFwElfXDDy1IkwbAMQshci39JV1u6TrwV6zPSFaTsJMqAfECCosYUa2TxJCwDzQB8lBzSzpRRFrmsu2NQUWlLTrHZPwfGCoYjv2BUosbPpS_IsLV-I/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcRncrd4UkY6Qi7k-JxAgMMq4QuFwElfXDDy1IkwbAMQshci39JV1u6TrwV6zPSFaTsJMqAfECCosYUa2TxJCwDzQB8lBzSzpRRFrmsu2NQUWlLTrHZPwfGCoYjv2BUosbPpS_IsLV-I/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317890960219509634" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, April 29, 1897Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-72915215797233854252009-03-27T09:54:00.005-05:002009-03-27T10:02:00.828-05:00Dr. Seuss goes to war<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDm3tOY3_ZlN8GNNoIIEWUlTOmpMbUnl2M6aSgDUmrtOMkWqYid6h4lDLeaRsOZ_Z7EZ2Qobow7mtm5__Wov_Fs5QzOC5a5SzhHS4wcIXznHAlP27lYIqjgdVG6tkRP8qmP0seKG4hM_w/s1600-h/20728acs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDm3tOY3_ZlN8GNNoIIEWUlTOmpMbUnl2M6aSgDUmrtOMkWqYid6h4lDLeaRsOZ_Z7EZ2Qobow7mtm5__Wov_Fs5QzOC5a5SzhHS4wcIXznHAlP27lYIqjgdVG6tkRP8qmP0seKG4hM_w/s320/20728acs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317882382833675410" border="0" /></a><br />How about that? Dr. Seuss's wartime cartoons are <a href="http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm">available online</a>. Good stuff!<br /><br />hat tip to <a href="http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/dr-seuss-goes-to-war/">More or Less Bunk </a>Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-28367431769814613962009-03-25T16:21:00.023-05:002009-03-27T19:09:50.900-05:00advertising: fooling all the people (1)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-w1NvPck-al9WTmgnVISsDFjp4a6fNzeTjVTKic9tZvKsyzu14n7wHKtLmyOj05dCNd8ikYomTSa-u1mHMMkJCkz-EzZEaxne0HRQdeaiRoYttXaGFQptSDO2Qq8nBwyveFNYeJdNIM/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-w1NvPck-al9WTmgnVISsDFjp4a6fNzeTjVTKic9tZvKsyzu14n7wHKtLmyOj05dCNd8ikYomTSa-u1mHMMkJCkz-EzZEaxne0HRQdeaiRoYttXaGFQptSDO2Qq8nBwyveFNYeJdNIM/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317247715413897714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, February 12, 1910<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For your enjoyment, a small collection of advertisements that used some variation of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/fooling-people-earlier.html">Abraham Lincoln's famous saying</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." Click images to make them bigger. More later.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19x69WXVqmgS6aFSe7MYjMSSkhJQ2jxQUEsoj85J1Iahctjo_a4S8Xs6cZhu42_hjaT2gI8mqbvHNxvTUZFQN3WLUW8LvmjLAoC-mRfWfNkIgN2-QPpsRIU06-z9f6wnoah__VR-4pQY/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19x69WXVqmgS6aFSe7MYjMSSkhJQ2jxQUEsoj85J1Iahctjo_a4S8Xs6cZhu42_hjaT2gI8mqbvHNxvTUZFQN3WLUW8LvmjLAoC-mRfWfNkIgN2-QPpsRIU06-z9f6wnoah__VR-4pQY/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317241943751265602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, August 25, 1895<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWyRoFQd3WyGiRCll-2oWJsgadEXIBQi4FfFfjqeCwm22IqZ6T2YqvnmOhczFJHOdhpDhfndJCS0mPO4WDnGkWgrOQUy_QaCcoiS6fueiIxBDaAbBBvhgsm1dAHFP91FetlKZuNdMNYk/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWyRoFQd3WyGiRCll-2oWJsgadEXIBQi4FfFfjqeCwm22IqZ6T2YqvnmOhczFJHOdhpDhfndJCS0mPO4WDnGkWgrOQUy_QaCcoiS6fueiIxBDaAbBBvhgsm1dAHFP91FetlKZuNdMNYk/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317245254184266066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, February 10, 1915<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh84EJMEOqQf7Ch4Z2mjPuTmi14tN5hK0rnsPYA3HvETcmpKXu8SdT_E2hL7r2zt4wO2vkHbgdQn17rb4LTj7voPNCL3uBn_SBaUBGaRLIjYCUaYtHaTvcUeCudU8ETP2Hb7w-tHGVzlI/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh84EJMEOqQf7Ch4Z2mjPuTmi14tN5hK0rnsPYA3HvETcmpKXu8SdT_E2hL7r2zt4wO2vkHbgdQn17rb4LTj7voPNCL3uBn_SBaUBGaRLIjYCUaYtHaTvcUeCudU8ETP2Hb7w-tHGVzlI/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317244043508102978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, October 26, 1914<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYTQBOwfJZdvJjxuh9bcAFP3v2n0eInXspGDGsCWS6s1spTgnuPrjG1XFdfuux4zqYAs5ECWefD-zTcsc7Y_szLXgOxqolsFWJQKJeUuYwM9S_jae3seU22t6aYmQ7lIJV9VNs42UQgA/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYTQBOwfJZdvJjxuh9bcAFP3v2n0eInXspGDGsCWS6s1spTgnuPrjG1XFdfuux4zqYAs5ECWefD-zTcsc7Y_szLXgOxqolsFWJQKJeUuYwM9S_jae3seU22t6aYmQ7lIJV9VNs42UQgA/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317246596098705490" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Boston Daily Globe</span>, June 16, 1895<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOPLf2NAOrADmWQNUANg3Z0Oq23i0LOfsx4P6PSDz1LOQ3Xp_gPLcToTJmH6F-2R6ngcvrdxWpWKVP7qLiUofiyI5gcWOpafyLsnWCxHuagUY2DY4_ZvdfCLKTUJ0Iw-v1sJHF9o1vWs/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOPLf2NAOrADmWQNUANg3Z0Oq23i0LOfsx4P6PSDz1LOQ3Xp_gPLcToTJmH6F-2R6ngcvrdxWpWKVP7qLiUofiyI5gcWOpafyLsnWCxHuagUY2DY4_ZvdfCLKTUJ0Iw-v1sJHF9o1vWs/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317241088489695650" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, November 2, 1931Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-65158031211210905152009-03-23T16:53:00.008-05:002012-03-10T18:39:27.873-05:00y’all’s or y’alls?How does one form the possessive of <span style="font-style:italic;">y’all</span>: with <span style="font-style:italic;">’s</span>, or with an <span style="font-style:italic;">s</span> and no apostrophe? I sort of want the answer to be <span style="font-style:italic;">y’all’s</span>, because I like the way it looks, and I like that it sometimes makes my students mad when I write it that way on the board (without telling them that it’s really wrong), and because it’s one word that illustrates both uses of the apostrophe (to form both contractions and possessives).<br /><br />But alas....<br /><br />Personal or definite pronouns--that is, pronouns that refer to something definite and that have a clear antecedent--do not have apostrophes in their possessive forms. Examples of these pronouns are <span style="font-style:italic;">he</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">she</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">you</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">it</span>. The possessive form of these pronouns: <span style="font-style:italic;">his</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">her</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">your</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">its</span> (not <span style="font-style:italic;">he’s</span>, and of course not <span style="font-style:italic;">it’s</span>, which is not a possessive but is a contraction for <span style="font-style:italic;">it is</span>).<br /><br />Some pronouns, called indefinite pronouns, do use an apostrophe to form the possessive. Example: <span style="font-style:italic;">anybody</span>, a pronoun that, unlike those above, does not refer to anything specific and has no real antecedent. (“Anybody can grow up to be president.”) The possessive of <span style="font-style:italic;">anybody</span> is <span style="font-style:italic;">anybody’s</span>, with an apostrophe. Other examples of indefinite pronouns: <span style="font-style:italic;">everybody</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">someone</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">nobody</span>.<br /><br />But <span style="font-style:italic;">y'all</span> is not an apostrophe-taking indefinite pronoun; it is a personal pronoun, and hence the possessive does not get an apostrophe: <span style="font-style:italic;">y’alls</span>.<br /><br />Another good question: Why am I bothering with this? Because I came across the following today in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%27all">Wikipedia’s entry on y’all</a>: “There is some debate on the spelling of the possessive form of y’all. Some will spell it ‘y’all’s’ while others will spell it ‘y’alls.’ As there does not seem to be an official answer, it is a matter of personal preference.”<br /><br />So here you have it, Wikipedia, the official answer: y’alls.<br /><br />(And yes, <a href="http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-than-yall-wanted-to-now-about-yall.html">I do claim to be official when it comes to y’all</a>.)Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-32415124874166896522009-03-23T12:07:00.002-05:002009-03-23T12:29:45.360-05:00the real reason I read Andrew Sullivan<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cdparker%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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But what keeps me coming back is stuff like this (all links from yesterday):</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">dead people twittering: <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <u2:worddocument> <u2:view>Normal</u2:View> <u2:zoom>0</u2:Zoom> <u2:compatibility> <u2:breakwrappedtables/> <u2:snaptogridincell/> <u2:wraptextwithpunct/> <u2:useasianbreakrules/> </u2:Compatibility> <u2:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</u2:BrowserLevel> </u2:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]-->"<a href="http://soulellis.com/2009/03/twenty-five_dead_people_on_twi.html">Poke around</a> and you'll find a whole bunch of dead people on Twitter, like Susan Sontag, George Washington and Sigmund Freud. It's fascinating to digest the life's work of a great thinker in 140 character chunks. Some are like performances — others are really trying to converse in the Twitterverse, ‘in the voice of’ or otherwise. Gandhi just uses the platform to spew quotes. Most fascinating is Charles Darwin, who is tweeting and blogging in real time on board the HMS Beagle (via his 1839 ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ diary).<u2:p></u2:p>”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">
<br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><u1:p></u1:p>when Jesus rode dinosaurs: <a href="http://raptureponies.com/2009/03/09/em/">a page</a> from a creationist coloring book</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">
<br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u3:p></u3:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">NASCAR as religion: “Is your spiritual engine running on fumes? Do you feel like you're falling behind in the race of life, or that you've hit the wall? Get ready to start your engine once again. In<i> <a href="http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/god_as_crew_chief/">The Race: From Pit Row to Victory Lane</a></i>, author Rick Lemons offers timely and comprehensive insights that will fuel your relationship with God. Join him as he parallels the Christian life to NASCAR racing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><u1:p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u1:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<br />Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054668270551244946.post-9403935657175564582009-03-21T06:47:00.008-05:002009-03-21T19:14:40.747-05:00comparing Lincoln and Davis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYoYcQzmNLCQIKmJIyYaMS60HCsfUqh55E4fpRGdvMYFmvbqFPYcHGvuj9pTeE1pQLhIjkLFfMxu7v0ytvP3NEGELKTnY9Jf-zPmNKL5Q-yv2N66jc-bjBQGshVqe0H1natEiQ_HBh_3c/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYoYcQzmNLCQIKmJIyYaMS60HCsfUqh55E4fpRGdvMYFmvbqFPYcHGvuj9pTeE1pQLhIjkLFfMxu7v0ytvP3NEGELKTnY9Jf-zPmNKL5Q-yv2N66jc-bjBQGshVqe0H1natEiQ_HBh_3c/s200/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315612339396234082" border="0" /></a>Today is Kennesaw State University's New Interpretations of the American Civil War Symposium. This year's topic: Envisioning America: The Leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. We have four of the best Lincoln and Davis scholars around: William Cooper, George Rable, Brian Dirck, and Stephen Berry.<br /><br />Mildred Lewis Rutherford, state historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for Georgia, made that same comparison almost a century ago in a little booklet she published. Given her affiliation, perhaps it's not a surprise that Lincoln came in second. Davis, she said, was a Christian, a humanitarian, a philanthropist, a patriot, a statesman, and a scholar. As for the U.S. president: "Shall Lincoln be held up as an exemplar for the imitation of our American Youth? We cannot hold him up as a GENTLEMAN OF REFINEMENT AND CULTURE.... We cannot commend Lincoln for <span style="font-style: italic;">integrity of character</span>.... We cannot hold him up as <span style="font-style: italic;">humane or tender hearted</span>.... The evidence is very strong against him as a VIOLATOR OF THE CONSTITUTION." And so on.<br /><br />Well, I guess that settles it. No need for the meeting now.Another History Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06882383789433401020noreply@blogger.com