Writing with scissors : American scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem renaissance /

Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scisso...

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Main Author: Garvey, Ellen Gruber
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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