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National Jukebox at the Library of Congress
The soundtrack of our grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ generation is now on the web in a large (and growing) collection… Read More...
Two generations removed from an Eyewitness to Lincoln
He said, “I asked her if she’d seen anybody famous, anything I might have read about.” It bought a… Read More...
The Mushroom Cloud Photograph: Preview of Digital Audio Workshop for SOHA Conference
Family history meets History history: For the Digital Audio Workshop I’m teaching at the SOHA Conference, I will work… Read More...
Katrina and The Flood, We Watched Everything Float Away
Podcast memories of Katrina and the flood, from Louisiana State University’s Oral History Program. This is the second in… Read More...
Katrina and The Flood, 5 years later: Floodwall
How can you possibly imagine the destruction of an entire city? How do you imagine an event so impossibly… Read More...
Thoughts about Faces of America
Just watched the first episode of Faces of America American Lives, the annual February PBS documentary by Henry Louis Gates… Read More...
Census 2010: A family history perspective
Pia Lopez of the SacBee opines that the census is much more than How Many People, What Ages are they?… Read More...
Great Grandma’s 1918 Flu letter mentioning Vicks VapoRub makes it into the News-Record
Greensboro News-Record recounts the history of Vicks VapoRub in the 1918 flu epidemic, and I and my great-grandmother get a… Read More...