Register and Read
Have you been pining for JSTOR? I know I have, and I was delighted by the Early Journal Content. (That’s free online access to content in JSTOR published prior to … Continue reading
Instructive Alphabet
Here’s the first post highlighting one of the items we’ll have available at the upcoming RIHS booksale: The Instructive Alphabet, New York: Samuel S. Wood, Baltimore, 1818. A small book … Continue reading
Grog O’ Clock (Martin Page, part I)
Faced with a diary or a memoir or a collection of someone’s correspondence, it’s a natural impulse to try to recreate an image of what that person might have been … Continue reading
The King is Dead! (Oh, wait…) Long Live the King! (Sanford Ross, pt. 2)
Our last post described Sanford Ross and some of the details of his daily life that are vividly brought out in the diary entries he maintained for fifteen years in … Continue reading
A Lively Experiment 