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On language and modes of communication.
Computer mouse connected to the word "blog."

Play With Your Words

How the term "blog" came into being.
by Peter Merholz via peterme.com on May 17, 2002
Harrison Gray Otis in superimposed over newspapers and palm trees.

Letter from Los Angeles

The history of the L.A. Times.
by Joan Didion via The New Yorker
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on February 18, 1990
Left: General Bonaparte firing at insurgents on steps of a church in Paris; right: George Washington kneeling to pray.

A Revolution Not Made but Prevented

“The major issue of the American Revolution was the true constitution of the British Empire.”
by Russell Kirk via Modern Age
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on November 1, 1985
A photograph of Henry A. Crabb.

Henry A. Crabb, Filibuster, and the San Diego Herald

A Californian politician's disastrous expedition to seize Mexican land, and how newspapers spun the story.
by Diana Lindsay via The Journal of San Diego History on January 1, 1973

Henry Ford, the Wayside Inn, and the Problem of 'History Is Bunk'

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.
by Roger Butterfield via Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society on June 1, 1965
Title card for animated film "Destination Earth".

Destination Earth (1956)

A Cold War-era cartoon celebrates the wonders of oil and free-market capitalism, and the overthrow of the Stalin-like leader of Mars.
by John Sutherland via The Public Domain Review on June 1, 1956
Political cartoon by Thomas Nast, depicting Grover Cleveland listening to election news on a telephone.

Mark Twain Eavesdrops

"I touched the bell and this talk ensued."
by Mark Twain via The Atlantic
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on June 1, 1880
Painting of young George Washington with an ax, with his father next to a felled cherry tree.

Spurious Quotations

The following is a list of quotations misattributed to George Washington that have been sent to the Mount Vernon Library in recent years.
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