Charley Norkus's Blog – February 2010 Archive (1)

Using my wife’s digital camera, I photographed the cover and title page from two U.S. History textbooks. My thoughts on this project kept evolving as I worked with it. My original idea was just to remain scalable by continuing to collect and add U.S. History textbooks from the past and present, and I do have a few more books that I could have added to this kind of collection. The more I thought about it, however, I couldn’t help but focus on these two particular books, one published in 1888…