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Describing the move in the mid-1800s towards the acquisition of current documents along with old published volumes, Carpenter told the story of a Harvard librarian who was reproached in 1856 “because he wrote a flier and stuck it under every plate at Commencement, saying that there was nothing written of which the library would not want a copy...
...into a collection now and pull a specimen that was collected back in the 1800s off the shelf, and pull out stomach contents to find out what it ate,” Hsieh says...
Quinn's specialty is Regency romances, which are set in the England of the early 1800s--think Jane Austen. There are eight subgenres of romance in all, including paranormal romance (which involves magic and the supernatural) and time-travel romance (love conquers all, including the space-time continuum). This kind of specialization is typical of the genre--romance novels are marketed more like computers or Tupperware than books. They are not works of art. They are highly targeted commodities, engineered to a set of tightly controlled specifications. The formula seems to work: romance novels rang up $1.5 billion in retail...
Studying must have been easier before the time of e-mail and VCRs. In those photographs of the 1800s elite in their spacious dorms, well-dressed and smoking cigars, there is nothing in the background to imply entertainment other than books. Their options were fourfold: letter-writing, reading, drinking or smoking. Though I’m sure some tried to subsist on the latter two, how could they go about locating friends to join them without cell phones and e-mail? Studying was clearly an inevitability...
...change that. This February, as we celebrate Black History Month, we should devote time not just to learning about and honoring blacks of the past, but to supporting blacks who carry on the struggle against slavery today. You are probably familiar with Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist of the 1800s, but how much do you know about some other former slaves who speak out as abolitionists in Massachusetts right now—people such as Francis Bok of the Sudan and Ahmeimidi Khaliva of Mauritania? I’m guessing that both names are new to you, so why not take...