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Anthony Grafton

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A Degenerate Assemblage

How Charles Lamb and his collection of well-loved books inspired a generation of American collectors.

by Anthony Grafton via London Review of Books on April 13, 2023
Liquor on Sundays

A new book sets out to discover how Americans became such creatures of the seven-day week.

by Anthony Grafton via London Review of Books on November 17, 2022
The 20th-Century Obelisk, From Imperialist Icon to Phallic Symbol

Amid all the imperial aspiration, wooly-minded New Age mythologizing, and pure unadulterated commerce, the obelisk stands tall.

by Anthony Grafton, Brian A. Curran, Pamela O. Long, Benjamin Weiss via The MIT Press Reader on December 16, 2019

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Antoni Jażwiński’s Tableau Muet, based on the original “Polish System” for charting historical information, later revised in France and the United States, 1834

Visualizing History: The Polish System

For the Polish educator Antoni Jażwiński, history was best represented by an abstract grid.

by Adam Green, Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on May 5, 2021

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