My Bank of the United States Collection

24 Titles so far: Bank of the United States Collection

AHHHH!

What a chore this project has been! Reading through 400 pages of congressional testimony from 1811 and trying to extract the essence of the arguments is very challenging. I have been spending most of my non-working hours trying to complete it with only sleep and meal breaks. (A little bit of TV too: Wolf Hall, Veep and Silicon Valley when I need respite.)  My goal is done by May 18th.

Researching digitally

I feel a little lazy but I am doing much of my research for a project on the Bank of the United States by searching digitized libraries like the Hathi Trust and America's Historical Newspapers. It is amazing that I can see a book referenced and just search Hathi Trust to find a copy from a university library, which Google has digitized. My advisor says there is a disadvantage to doing a key word in a newspapers database in that you miss the historical context you'd get by paging through a bound volume or scrolling on microfilm. That is true I think that you can also find material you might have missed otherwise as you are casting the net wider than you would by sitting in the library stacks. Also, you can still read the rest of the newspaper for the context if you find something of interest by a key word search.

Long time , no post

I didn't realize it had been so long since my last post in September 2013. I need to revise the page because the Takeaways are no longer a going concern, at least as they used to be. There were artistic differences as I didn't want to dress up in period garb and just didn't like the sorts of material we were playing. So we split with the guitarist and I moving on to form another band. So I will delete the Twitter feed for the Takeaways from the blog template. Blogging is actually kind of old now: more of a 2005 activity. Twitter and Tumblr are probably what people use. I mostly retweet and repost on both those sites. I don't feel like sharing my opinions on things. Besides I only have 25 or so followers, most of whom are companies who want to sell me something. My Klout score is abysmally low. Anyway, lots of changes since my last post, but this isn't the place to elaborate on them. Life is pretty good: health, professional and personal life are in order. I still like Obama and am glad he is putting it to the Republicans. I am disappointed that David Carr died and that Stephen Colbert left the Report and that Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show. Deeply immersed in the rechartering of the First Bank of the United States having struck out on gradual abolition in New Jersey.

I am just glad that no one hijacked this blog to transform it into spam.

Haerfest is ycomen in.

Ain't the internet wonderful? 

Cedar Street Sessions

Lack of Activity

Since most of what was on here is stuff I found on the web, my Twitter and Tumblr accounts are getting all of the activity. It is so much easier to click a button to add than to have to write a post.