[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 156, Issue 19

Barry Wellman wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Thu Jul 20 15:52:21 PDT 2017


Geographer Alan Pred had a great book about the telegraph and shipping 
news

Pred, Alan (1973). Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The 
United States System of Cities, 1790-1840. Cambridge, MA: Harvard 
University Press.


   Barry Wellman

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Today's Topics:

    1. Question about communication history (Alex Leavitt)
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Subject: [Air-L] Question about communication history
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Not an internet question, but maybe people are familiar enough with
communications technology to give some pointers:

I've gotten REALLY into communications infrastructure history recently.
There's a ton documented on World War 1 and 2, but less on the American
Civil War. I'm looking specifically for documentation of non-war
communication tools: less about war participants and more about ordinary
people's communication patterns (letters, telegraph, photography,
newspapers, etc.). Namely, what was an American before and during the Civil
War doing to learn about the state of the nation? Does anyone have any good
sources to look at?

Thanks!
Alex


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