How a Draft of the Constitution Ended Up in a Drawer in Trenton, N.J. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/nyregion/draft-constitution-trenton-nj.html

Interesting piece about #archives, #Colonial era and #AmericanRevolution, public attitudes toward #history, and the effect of widely separated #historic sites on cultural #tourism
#EarlyAm #HistoricPreservation

Our Five College Seminar in the #History of the #Books tries to represent the diversity of the field by presenting current research from both established and #EarlyCareer scholars.

Here is a list of topics in recent years:

https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/five-college-book-history-seminar

Our next seminar (via Zoom, December 1) features Joyce Chaplin (Harvard):

" #Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs"

https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022

#EarlyAm #AmLit #Book#History #BookHistodons

Big, happy, wonderful news! The book catalog entry and pre-order link for my edited collection, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History, just dropped! https://www.umasspress.com/9781625347190/handwriting-in-early-america/

#handwriting #manuscript #manuscriptstudies #bookhistory #bookhistodon @bookhistodons @litstudies #earlyam #amlit #paleography #bibliodon #bibliography

I think one of the most cringy things about other social media platforms to me was watching people turn themselves into a “brand”. Real life “friends” posting ONLY the highlights reels of their life always seemed fake to me. I was late diagnosed with autism so I’ve spent a lot of my adult years trying to “unmask” my autistic traits. So, seeing a lot of neurotypicals try to brand themselves and sell only the highlights always seemed a lot like masking! Anyways, I think it’s cool if you have something to sell, a craft, your talent, whatever, but your art is not your entire self. I like when people post/toot about their struggles sometimes. It feels real and human. It gives me something tangible to connect to. It makes me feel like I’m not the only one struggling. A little vulnerability could really help someone else who is struggling. I‘ll never be a brand. I never want to be a brand. I’m just myself, the good the bad the ugly, and sometimes I’ll post the good. Sometimes I’ll post the bad, and sometimes I’ll post the ugly. I’m real. Raw and unmasked and I’m seeking real people to engage with not “brands”. #earlyam #thoughts #BeReal #MondayMood