Happy holidays to you all! As I planned for this post, I intended something quick and simple about our ancestors’ holiday traditions. I thought it would be fun to pick a Christmas, any mid-nineteenth-century Christmas in my region of interest, and discuss how the local newspaper treated the holiday. I was in for a surprise.
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The Height of Modernity: Newspapers and the Now of Then
We live in the height of modernity—the newest and most sophisticated of everything. But guess what? Just about every generation who has ever lived could say the same. And future generations will look at the world of 2020 with bemusement at our backwardness and pity that we lived without their comforts. It is a tale as old as time.