American Revolutions from Print to Celluloid

January 26, 2008 9:41 PM

The E Pluribus Unum Project attempts to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life: the 1770s, the 1850s, and the 1920s. If you're impatient, you can just cut to the Bathing Beauties.
posted by maryh (7 comments total)

See now, I'll never call out any post with Bathing Beauties, especially when there's a direct link. Well done, maryh!
posted by Doohickie at 10:54 PM on January 26, 2008

Upon further reading, seriously, this is a good post.
posted by Doohickie at 11:07 PM on January 26, 2008

Darn it, Doohickie. I'll never get called out. It's just not fair!
posted by maryh at 11:09 PM on January 26, 2008

This site is either a) awesome and going to become something I spend hours and hours and hours and hours reading; or b) weirdly biased in some way it's going to take me hours and hours of reading to discover. I'd like a shortcut, if possible, to determine whether the weird bias exists. maryh, did you see anything that made you think, "Huh, dunno whether to trust that, site-writer-people"? Or something that made you especially trust the folks who put this together?
posted by cgc373 at 11:28 PM on January 26, 2008

cgc373, I've been mostly focussed on the essays about the 1920's, and so far I'm not seeing any overt bias. If anything, the writing seems a little dry and scholarly but the topic (IMO) is fascinating enough to make up for it. It's a huge load of material, but I haven't read anything that's set off my ideology alarms.
posted by maryh at 11:49 PM on January 26, 2008

All right, good deal. Thanks, maryh. American studies stuff interests me, but it's hard to find stuff I can appreciate both as writing and as intelligent commentary. This site looks like it has upped its production values when compared to a lot of webbish bloggerish blowhardery, and I'm hopeful, if a bit wary. Thanks for the pointers.
posted by cgc373 at 11:57 PM on January 26, 2008

cgc373, I read an essay here that I think warrants nuking this post. Thank you fo your good instincts- I've alerted Matt.
posted by maryh at 12:18 AM on January 27, 2008