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Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / edited by Judith A. McGaw

Introduction: the experience of early American technology -- Technology in early America: a view from the 1990s -- The exhilaration of early American technology: an essay -- Lost, hidden, obstructed ...
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Notes on early American modernism

We had been sponging on Europe far direction instead of developing our own, and Europe had been handing out nice little packages of spiritual direction to us. But then Europe fell into disorder and ...
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Reading early American handwriting / Kip Sperry

Reading early American handwriting -- Guidelines for reading old documents -- Abbreviations and contractions -- Terms -- Numbers and Roman numerals -- Dates and the calendar change -- Sample alphabets ...