The United States Democratic Review

[vortex]

I've been enjoying this lately so I thought I'd share for the history buffs on the forum. I love first hand stuff from ealy American History.

It's amazing how often news from 180 years ago is pertinent to recent events.

The United States Democratic Review

Enjoy!

Steve

 

[gtadroptop]

Wonderful. Now I have something else to get into.

Actually, that's an interesting site. As a side note, it always amazes me how more cerebral the prose of the 19th century authors are compared to the modern style of 21st century journalists.

 

[BigMacFU]

Wonderful. Now I have something else to get into.

Actually, that's an interesting site. As a side note, it always amazes me how more cerebral the prose of the 19th century authors are compared to the modern style of 21st century journalists.

Part of that has to do with the format of some of the texts on that site. They are more aptly compared to current academic journals than they are daily papers. But yes, still the lack of good writing even in today's papers is evident. Much of that has to do with a loss of classical education and thus the loss of reading other really good writers whom you may mimic one day. Also, it has to do with the pushing of a product rather than an idea, and so they cater to an audience whose attention span and intellect itself is much lower.

Great site though for sure. Tons of universities do stuff like this, which is really cool. As much as I'm starting to become frightened by Google's push to have all data analyzed and available about everything, I still think their Google Books project shouldn't be receiving as much resistance as it's getting as it's goal seems to be doing just this sort of thing on a larger scale.

 

[vortex]

I was wondering if anyone else would find this interesting. Not only is it well written and thought out; but, I think it's amazingly contemporary for a 180 YO rag! Plus you get some perspective on old issues that are still discussed today. And rarely do the authors begin a sentence, "It's widely thought..." or "Many have said ...". They usually quote a source or simply state their opinion!

 

[BigMacFU]

I was wondering if anyone else would find this interesting. Not only is it well written and thought out; but, I think it's amazingly contemporary for a 180 YO rag! Plus you get some perspective on old issues that are still discussed today. And rarely do the authors begin a sentence, "It's widely thought..." or "Many have said ...". They usually quote a source or simply state their opinion!

That's because most of them were probably schooled in rhetoric and thus they know better than to appeal to popularity. As an educator, I miss so much the classical education format. Thanks for the link again vortex.