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Monthly Archives of November 2007

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The Napoleonic Internet

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 28, 2007
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Cabinet of Wonders recalls the semaphore towers of 18th-century France’s optical telegraph network.

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Pornography of Regret

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 23, 2007
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The erotic appeal of the Lands’ End catalog?

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Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 19, 2007
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The Archaeological Institute of America weighs the evidence for zombie attacks in predynastic Egypt.

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Dear Sir

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 16, 2007
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Responses to an ad placed by a 19th century murderer. (Paul Collins explains.)

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24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 13, 2007
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I have reservations about linking to “College” “Humor,” but this is a pretty fun trip down memory lane.

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Ahoy-hoy! I am an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada, where I teach United States history and study the history of information and communication. My current research involves the history of pseudoscience and crank invention. I'm using computational methods like text mining and adaptive filtering to trace the circulation of "wrong, bad, or weird" science in 19th-century America. The goal is to draw lessons for our own time about the ways communication networks shape the ideas we have and share.

I am the author of The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and several book chapters and articles. I also co-designed and directed Tecumseh Lies Here, an augmented reality game that commemorates and critiques the history of the War of 1812. And I co-host a bi-weekly podcast that explores the history and culture of the 1970s and 80s through the lens of the classic sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati. I received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2004.

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