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The Young Historian
A collection of historical photographs, newspaper clippings, and documents that provide a glimpse into the past.
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From “The South and the School Problem” by Atticus G. Haywood. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. 470. July 1889
#Harper’s New Monthly Magazine#July 1889#1889#education#United States#USA#Southern States#Nineteenth Century#19th Century#single payer education system#taxation for education#taxes#Atticus G. Haywood
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Let’s be history detectives...
As I’ve been posting old photos from my collection on here and my personal blog I’ve mentioned a few times that my favorite thing in the world is to buy historical photos/albums/diaries/etc. with little or no identification and try to track down clues about them.
I’ve received a few PMs (and get questioned often in real life) as to how I go about this, so I thought I would document the project I’m working on today to give people a basic idea of my process.
TODAY’S PROJECT…
is this “A Line A Day” five year diary which covers the years 1933-1937.
I’ve featured it before on Ye Olde News for it’s page of “Nothing Special” entries.
The diary has no name in it and the majority of the entries are incredibly vague such as “I went downtown” or “It snowed today”.
Let’s see what we can find out.
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Union Times, South Carolina - 21 Mar 1879
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Kansas Kritic, Kansas - 15 June 1887
#women#women’s rights#teacher#kansas kritic#newspaper#historical newspaper#archive#newspapers.com#concordia#kansas#united states#history#1887#1880s
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Kansas Kritic, Kansas - 15 June 1887
#women are fools#women#women’s rights#Fanny Mendelsshon#Lucretia Mott#Charlotte Bronte#Mary A. Livermore#Caroline Herschel#Harriet Beecher Stowe#Queen Isabella of Spain#Johanna Roebling#Miriam Leslie#Annie E. Carroll#Mrs. Conyers Button#Mary Allen#Portia#Merchant of Venice#Margaretta Bowles#newspapers.com#historical newspaper#newspaper#archive#history#1887#1880s#concordia#kansas#united states
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An interesting point about historians
I was contemplating what I wanted my first post on this blog to be when I found the perfect quote by one of my professors.
I recently enrolled in an online course about the history of madness. In the introductory video, my professor made an interesting point about historians:
“Studying the past requires a degree of intrusion into other people’s lives most of us would not tolerate in our own lives. Read a dead person’s diary - you’re a historian. Read your best friend’s diary - you’re an ex-best friend. Digging up a body that’s been buried for a thousand years is called archaeology. Digging up a body that’s been buried for a week is called a felony. In other words, as students of the past, we are given a latitude to do unto others what few of us would be happy about having done unto us.”
#history#historian#historians#historical research#historical figures#archaeology#the young historian#quote#madness#insanity
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