History Weekend
When February 17, 2012 – February 18, 2012 at Main Lecture 9AM Saturday
Where Withers Hall 232A
Please join us for History Weekend!
Blogging Then and Now (250 Years Ago)
We think of blogs and tweets as peculiar to the twenty-first century, but similar fragments of information circulated widely in 18th-century Paris and London. Comparisons of messages exchanged then and now reveal surprising parallels, and they raise questions about the way communication systems operate in different times and cultures.
Guest Dr. Robert Darnton Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library