History 1810E Lecture Notes - Hearse, Stagecoach, Lake Ontario
25 Feb 2014
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World war i: many of the things that we recognize as modern existed during the first world. War (airplanes, wireless communication: therefore we relate to it as a modern war. Most people didn"t have telephones, so people used postcards to communicate things that we would now use text/email/phone for: assignment: document analysis. You will be doing research on a postcard that you will be given, taking a simple form of communication and finding the meaning in it. It will be more revealing than it seems at first glance (the small nuances of life, what it was like living in this country in 1914 ) Note: there is no textbook assigned for this section of the course, but weekly readings will be posted online. It could produce 170 barrels of flour a day: by the mid 1890"s, all of this was gone because:
