The greater part of those who have written their memoirs have only shown us their bad actions or their weaknesses when they happen to have mistaken them for deeds of prowess or fine instincts, a thing they often do.
“boy sees lobster for the first time” (via youtube)
From an actual recipe book called Let’s Serve Something New. 53 Selected Recipes for the use of Liver, Heart, Kidney, Sweetbreads, Tongue and other Meat Specialties (via Ptak Science Books)
The sound and video are a little unsynchronized, but I love this performance.
Poster Display of a War Poster, “Don’t Talk” (via The U.S. National Archives)
Fondren Library, 60th Anniversary →
Neat site offering retrospective look at the Rice University library
What I actually want to say is, yippee!
— Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on news of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, as quoted by LeeAnna Keith
Early photographically illustrated books →
Nearly 1,500 nineteenth-century photographs in an Online Gallery at the British Library.
Image of ‘John Henry’s Hand’ by Fred Becker.
Fred Becker (Born: Oakland, California 1913 Died: Amherst, Massachusetts 2004)
wood engraving image: 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (15.4 x 11.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum
(via Smithsonian American Art)
Some of the jauntiest Civil War soldiers I’ve ever seen in a Matthew Brady photograph (via The U.S. National Archives)
Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
— Flannery O’Connor, quoted by Paul Elie
NYHS Map Rectifier →
Overlay historical and present-day maps of New York City
A Regular Writing Routine →
Some good advice from Peg Boyle Single at Inside Higher Ed about creating regular writing routines and resisting “Myth #1: Writing can only occur in large blocks of time.”
