Patrick Oden :: Blog :: time that blog forgot

http://dualravens.com/ravens/?p=197

Ann Althouse, a law professor at UW Madison, is beginning a very interesting project. Interesting, at least to this one time history major.

She’s started a blog called the Time that Blog Forgot. Each day she is going to go through the New York Times archives on a random year, going back 100 years, and blog about the news of that day.

This is especially fun to me because it is such a more thorough version of what I attempted back in 1994 or so (pre-blogging!). For a history methodology class I went through the microfiche of old New York Times and sought to get a contemporary view of the Civil War.

Here’s that paper.

You’ll need a bit more New York Times online access to read the full articles she is posting, but even the little bits in her post make for a very fascinating journey through history.

Very fun!