One of the best history books that I’ve read lately: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning. New York in 1977, the city, the blackout, racial tensions, the Yankees, all masterfully recounted by Jonathan Mahler.
The beginning of the Trigger effect, the first episode of James Burke’s Connections, exploring the causes of the New York City blackout of 1965 and the way that modern life is the product of seemingly accidental discoveries.
“This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective “news” was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century”
A great little infographic which describes the several stages/elements of book publishing. Essentially identical to newspaper printing.
Royskopp video by H5. Could serve as a touchstone for the infographic direction of the wallmap and ancillary material. But also, the subject of this video is either personalized or anonymized by alternately scaling back and zooming in. Makes one wonder about the status of the citizen relative to information scales.
