Joseph Janes

Documents That Changed the Way We Live (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends. These documents include the following: "Exaltation of Innana," a Sumerian hymn composed c. 2300 BCE by the high priestess Enheduanna, likely the first known author...of anythingThe "We Can Do It!" poster everybody knows is Rosie the Riveter calling women to work in the factories in World War II. Except it's not, and she isn'tJoseph McCarthy's "list" of Communists that ruined lives and careers, because it was believed - even though it never existedThe "He has waged cruel war..." passage on slavery, deleted from the Declaration of IndependenceThe poorly designed Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot," on which the 2000 U.S. presidential election may have hingedAnd the lesser-known stories behind the Zapruder Film, the Watergate tapes, the Obama birth certificate, airplane black boxes, Thanksgiving, IQ tests, the Star-Spangled Banner, why Americans spell the way they do, Nobel Prizes, Wikipedia, and how you're cooking dinner tonight

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538100349
• Artikelnr.: 48211051

Autorenporträt

Joseph Janes is Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. A frequent speaker in the US and abroad, he is the author of several books, including Library 2020, and has written a monthly column for American Libraries magazine since 2002. He is the creator and host of Documents That Changed the World, a popular podcast series on the cultural impacts of historic documents. He holds the M.L.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University of New York at Albany as well as at Syracuse and Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Gregorian Calendar
1582/Gutenberg Indulgence
1454 2.Exaltation of Inanna
c2300 BCE 3.Rosetta Stone
196 BCE 4.Donation of Constantine
c750 5.Liber Abaci (Arabic numerals)
1202 6.Annals of the World
1650 7.Philosophical Transactions
1665 8.The Riot Act
1714 9.Declaration of Independence Deleted Passage
1776 10.What Is the Third Estate?
1789 11."The Star-Spangled Banner"
1814 12.Webster's Dictionary
1828 13.The Book of Mormon
1830 14.First Women's College Diploma
1840 15.John Snow's Cholera Map
1854 16.Rules of Association Football (Soccer)
1863 17.Alaska Purchase Check
1868 18.Robert's Rules of Order
1876 19.Alfred Nobel's Will
1895 20.First X-Ray
1895 21.Fannie Farmer Cook Book
1896 22.The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
c1900 23.IQ Test
1905 24.Zimmerman Telegram
1917 25.The Nineteenth Amendment
1920 26.Statistical Significance
1925 27.Stock Market Ticker Tape
1929 28.Richter Scale
1935 29.Einstein's Letter to Roosevelt
1939 30.FDR and Thanksgiving
1939 31."Letters of Transit
" 1942 32."We Can Do It!" Poster
1943 33.Joseph McCarthy's List
1950 34.Mental Disorder Diagnosis Manual
1952 35.Airplane "Black Box
" 1958 36.Space Needle "Sketch
"
1959 37.Obama Birth Certificate
1961 38.Zapruder Film
1963 39.Quotations of Chairman Mao
1965 40.The 18 ¿ Minute Gap
1972 41.Internet Protocol
1981 42.Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 43.AIDS Quilt
1987 44.Nupedia
2000 45.Palm Beach County "Butterfly" Ballot
2000 46.Pope Benedict XVI's Resignation
2013