American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
by
Ellen Gruber Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors...