Ordinary Americans

2021-10-19

Looking hard at boring things

Slow looking

Changing understandings of the world.

The world, 1941: more about from Susan Schulten

The United States

Data schemas

Schemas for archival objects.

A database of databases.

Crowdsourcing

Return to Normalcy (40 mins)

Normalcy and the 20s

WW1

Spanish Flu

Anarchists

Center of Population (Census Bureau)

Normalcy:

  1. Builds a sense of connection.
  2. Excludes people
  3. Serves to choke off change.

Middletown

Is ‘normal’ better than ‘extraordinary?’

Archival sources (40 mins)