Documents that changed the way we live / Joseph Janes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janes, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western--Sources--Anecdotes.

Civilization, Western.

Civilization.

Civilization, Western--Sources.

United States--Civilization--Sources--Anecdotes.

United States.

Civilization--Sources.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

Summary:

Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends. These documents include the following: "Exaltation of Innana," a Sumerian hymn composed c. 2300 BCE by the high priestess Enheduanna, likely the first known author...of anything, The "He has waged cruel war..." passage on slavery, deleted from the Declaration of Independence, The "We Can Do It!" poster everybody knows is Rosie the Riveter, calling women to work in the factories in WWII. Except it's not, and she isn't. Joseph McCarthy's "list" of Communists, which ruined lives and careers-even though it never existed. The poorly designed Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot," on which the 2000 U.S. presidential election may have hinged, And the less-known stories behind the Zapruder film, the Watergate tapes, Obama birth certificate, airplane black boxes, Thanksgiving, IQ tests, "The Star-Spangled Banner" why Americans spell the way they do, Nobel Prizes, Wikipedia, and how you're cooking dinner tonight. Book jacket.

Contents:

Gregorian Calendar, 1582/Gutenberg Indulgence, 1454

Exaltation of Inanna, c2300 BCE

Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE

Donation of Constantine, c750

Liber Abaci (Arabic numerals), 1202

Annals of the world, 1650

Philosophical transactions, 1665

The Riot Act, 1714

Declaration of Independence deleted passage, 1776

What is the Third Estate?, 1789

The Star-Spangled Banner, 1814

Webster's Dictionary, 1828

The Book of Mormon, 1830

First women's college diploma, 1840

John Snow's cholera map, 1854

Rules of Association Football (soccer), 1863

Alaska Purchase check, 1868

Robert's Rules of Order, 1876

Alfred Nobel's will, 1895

First x-ray, 1895

Fannie Farmer Cook Book, 1896

The protocols of the elders of Zion, c1900

IQ test, 1905

Zimmerman Telegram, 1917

The Nineteenth Amendment, 1920

Statistical significance, 1925

Stock Market ticker tape, 1929

Richter Scale, 1935

Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, 1939

FDR and Thanksgiving, 1939

Letters of transit, 1942

We can do it! poster, 1943

Joseph McCarthy's list, 1950

Mental disorder diagnosis manual, 1952

Airplane "black box," 1958

Space Needle sketch, 1959

Obama birth certificate, 1961

Zapruder film, 1963

Quotations of Chairman Mao, 1965

The 18 1/2 minute gap, 1972

Internet Protocol, 1981

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982

Aids quilt, 1987

Nupedia, 2000

Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, 2000

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, 2013.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Janes, Joseph, author. Documents that changed the way we live

ISBN:

9781538100332

1538100339

OCLC:

969371360