Author: --
Title: The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1844 (Boston, 1843)
Call #: AY 64. A5
Section: Page 337: Chronicle of Events for 1843
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Ideologies of Importance, (note patterns of inclusion and exclusion)
- text includes multiple calendars (Christian, Jewish, Moslem); census of slave by state; list of colleges and universities (and their cost - Harvard tuition: $75 in 1843). A lot of data is in chart form, which provides interesting information in addition to what may be gleaned from a transcription exercise