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2nd May 2012
Check out this interactive map, which plots the destination, age, class, and ultimate fate of each of the Titanic’s passengers.
It shows how data can be harnessed through infographics to tell multiple stories.
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24th April 2012
Hats off to the New York Department of Records for digitizing some 870,000 images of turn-of-the-century Gotham.
Check out a few gems from this gorgeous collection here.
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16th April 2012
Congrats to Stephen Greenblatt, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The Swerve was also the winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Norton is also proud to publish two 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalists: Railroaded by Richard White (History) and One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman (General Nonfiction).
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5th April 2012
Perez Hamilton
Gossip blog + early American history = pure genius.
Great. Massachusetts was JUST given religious tolerance and now the witches are free to roam.
Betty Parris, age 9, and Abigail Williams, age 11, (daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris) have been having “fits” that are beyond epileptic. According to an eyewitness, the girls…
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16th March 2012
“The police were out in force but were very consider[ate] of the joyous throngs that at times threatened to break out into the streets among the marchers, for the bluecoats had so many friends and sweethearts among the cheering thousands that it was positively dangerous to attempt even the lightest of clubwork.”
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Here’s hoping that the St. Patrick’s Day Parade—which begins tomorrow morning a block from W. W. Norton’s 500 Fifth Avenue address—isn’t quite so “joyous” (read: violent) as it was in 1902.
Source: The New York Times, March 18, 1902.
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8th March 2012
On this International Women’s Day, celebrate women in the workplace with these incredible WWII-era photos.
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1st March 2012
Slavery Footprint
This interactive, animated survey reminds us that slavery is not just part of the past.
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17th February 2012
Excited for Presidents’ Day? We are, too.
Celebrate by watching Eric Foner’s crash course on the American presidency. In this myth-shattering interview, the master historian discusses almost every President—from George Washington to Obama—in a breathless 22 minutes.
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14th February 2012
On Valentines
Looks like the New York Times editorial board didn’t receive any Valentines in 1856:
Our beaux and belles are satisfied with a few miserable lines, neatly written upon fine paper, or else they purchase a printed Valentine with verses ready made, some of which are costly, and many of which are cheap and indecent.In any case, whether decent or indecent, they only please the silly and give the vicious an opportunity to develop their propensities…the sooner [they are] abolished the better.Source: New York Times, 14 Feb. 1856. See the original editorial here. -
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2nd February 2012
“As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864.
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Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.”~
To kick off Black History month, check out this recently uncovered letter, dated August 7, 1865. Dictated by former slave Jourdan Anderson, the letter was addressed to his former master, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee.
Source: lettersofnote.com
