Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
By Ellen Gruber Garvey (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) 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 Scissors opens a new window into the … Continued
