This week’s reading of Chapter 2 in Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. by Alfred D Chandler., and James W. Cortada, we learned about early information forms. I thou…
I enjoyed the readings for this week & I felt like they complimented each other well. Both Brown & Mellen wrote about the influence of print in the spreading of new ideas such as independence, Reformation, Renaissance, and the Scientific Revol…
Feingold, Deborah. Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. November 20, 1985. Corbis, Getty Images.
My group was assigned the Civil War and Early Photography period (1850-1900) for our photo timeline assignment. Our timeline encompasses the work of two important Civil War-era photographers, Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner, as well as a portrait of the influential author, Louisa May Alcott. Brady’s photo of wounded soldiers at Marye’s Heights has become
I really enjoyed this assignment because I love historic photographs. My group was assigned the time period 1900-1945 and I was really excited to see what photos we’d choose since this is a time period where so much technology was being develope…
For this assignment, our group focused on the 1900-1945 time period. Each of the ladies in our group chose to focus on a different aspect of an important contribution to the information age.