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AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book

February 26th, 2010, by Paul Erickson

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What do we think about when we think about the history of the book in the U.S. South (for those of us prone to think about such things, that is)? It is received wisdom that the South was much less industrialized than the North in the first half of the nineteenth century. And, if print [...]


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Today in the Life of an 1870 Schoolmarm Worn out. : September 7. Pleasant.  Quilting again and almost wore out my fingers.  Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey called here this afternoon but did not come into the house.  Susan came down yesterday and helped us quilt.  She tried to plague me about it but I was in no mood to joke and she I guess wondered at [...]