Innovation
From the Archives: Florence Nightingale Does the Math
I just finished writing a review of a book that uses infographics, and only infographics, to tell a historical story. It’s a fascinating and beautiful work–and I’ll tell you all about it after the initial review comes out in Shelf Awareness for Readers. (I’d say that I’m sorry to be a tease, but that…
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From The Archives: Lincoln’s Greatest Case–Sort of
One of the recurring themes this fall as we worked our way along the Great River Road, crossing the Mississippi back and forth between Iowa and Wisconsin was, in fact, the question of crossing the river. We think of “bridge-building” as a metaphor for bringing communities together, but the construction of real-life bridges was often…
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Road Trip Through History: Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover, Or a Museum By Its Website
It probably comes as no surprise to those of you who have been hanging out here in the Margins for a while that I am a fan of local history museums. What a museum chooses to focus on can tell you how a community or a region defines itself. Even a museum that seems at…
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