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No Formula for Comfort
Or, Accountants Really, Really Don’t Mince Words I’ve been doing some research in-and-around accountancy, including some attempts to learn actual methods. It is what it is; mainly what I’ve noticed is...
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Hunting Snark – and History
Or, <eye roll> Primary Documents </eye roll> Tom Scocca’s recent snarking on smarm has got me thinking about the connections between history, as it is written and pursued, and one of the...
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Such Phrenology. So Railroad. Wow.
Or, Meme Translation Today I found a portrait and detailed profile of one of the characters I’m currently writing about in the American Phrenological Journal. Yes folks, in November 1849, Asa Whitney,...
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Fabrics of Our (Historical) Lives
Or, A Mini-Museum Review, In Three Parts Or, I came, I marveled, I exited through the gift shop I. The current Met Exhibit on early modern textile trading is FANTASTIC. If you’ve got the means and the...
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The Fraught Freight of Transcontinentals
Or, You Make a Better Road Than A Destination, America It’s been a busy week for the appreciation of the promise and perils of transcontinental, or if you prefer, inter-oceanic, travel. Allow me to...
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From Friend Barnum to Friend Greeley
Or, For the “Sources Whose Stories I Wish I Had More Time To Pursue, But Never Will” File An excerpt from the September 29, 1847 edition of the New-York Daily Tribune: “We were rejoiced at receiving...
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A Collection of Altered States
Fun facts from this morning’s research: Harvard has on deposit “the world’s largest private collection of material documenting altered states of mind,” The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The...
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Hope and the Worldly Historian
And in despair I bowed my head; There is no peace on earth, I said; For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” (1) The last few days, I’ve been turning...
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The Labor of Organizing Capitalists
Or, Who Did The Work of Making the Business Lobby? #BizManBook Research Note #1 Source: Peter Schawang, Minnesota Association of Commercial Secretaries 25th Anniversary, St. Paul., February 12, 1944,...
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