What Making of America is awesome for is providing slice of life details for anyone writing fiction. You can search by year and find what people were writing about day to day in all its banal glory. Here's an example courtesy of the guys doing QC in the cube next to me at the time. It's from a 3rd grade reader in the 1870s IIRC:
Mike and Rob are killing birds. Mike has killed three birds. Rob has killed two birds. How many birds have Mike and Rob killed?
So it's a word problem from the arithmetic section with what would be a psychotic bent by our lights. It's proof that people in the 19th century really did have a different mindset than our own. We have to remember that our food system wasn't industrialized back then like it was now and lots of people lived with their food. Gives your pause to think your great to the Nth parents might have named their sunday dinner.
As for LJ, I know that some people are doing research on social networking via things like LJ even as we blog today.
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So it's a word problem from the arithmetic section with what would be a psychotic bent by our lights. It's proof that people in the 19th century really did have a different mindset than our own. We have to remember that our food system wasn't industrialized back then like it was now and lots of people lived with their food. Gives your pause to think your great to the Nth parents might have named their sunday dinner.
As for LJ, I know that some people are doing research on social networking via things like LJ even as we blog today.