@rachelamaley.bsky.social
Teaching Assistant Professor in archival research methods, print culture, interactive literature, and children’s literature. Research on standby: 19th-century children’s literature and print culture, adaptation, and toy books.
This is some fascinating book history! childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/teacher-mo... 📚 📜
the illustrations and the words seemed to vary across editions, so the author "did what any reasonable person would do: I requested every edition I could find through interlibrary loan to see for myself" 💕
Okay YA hive mind, what’s your favorite YAL recommendation these days? I feel like
I’ve been out of the loop and have an upcoming trip and need a book or two!
I’m determined for my students to use Microsoft Word competently.
25.03.2025 00:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations! My son and I love The Incredible Book Eating Boy among others but that one is definitely a favorite. Can’t wait to see this in print!
22.03.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to trying this out with my Interactive Lit students this semester!
22.01.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here are my remarks for @ach.bsky.social’s #mla25 "Book History & the Digital Humanities" roundtable—"Making Media Manifest" tries to link DH making, the communications circuit & origins of BH, the current "book labs" movement, & critical infrastructure studies—& channel some 2011-era-twitter vibes
09.01.2025 23:33 — 👍 52 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1![[Christmas tree shape poem, with topper and ornaments composed of stars, daggers, black boxes, o's, x's, dolls composed of typographical elements, and other decorative print objects.]
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
BY H. C. DODGE
O say can you see by its own sparkling light
this beautiful tree filling home with delight?
’Tis the Christmas Tree bending with tokens of love,
earth’s angels attending heaven’s angels above.
O, say can you hear sweetest music around
making home, ever dear, dearer yet with its sound?
’Tis the glad song of childhood’s right merriest glee
inspired by the wild wood’s most beautiful tree.
O, say you will find on this tree of delight
rare gifts all designed to make memory bright
from father and mother and daughter and son—
from each to the other with love never done.
O, say you will feel as the fruits from this tree
their beauties reveal a great joy that will free
the heart from all sadness and cause it to know
the holiest gladness that earth can bestow.
Hail, Tree! while we mingle around thee with cheer.
All hail to Kris Kringle, who planted thee here.
May Christmas’ old story told always with zest
give home a new glory and make its own blest.
[One line of text in the trunk of the tree:]
Christmas Comes But Once a Year](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rykdmiisbjdf4ooel7bxlrfu/bafkreie6h3vabl7bbiqzplbaakovay6s2y6z4p4v2ce72wnz5s7cqhdw44@jpeg)
[Christmas tree shape poem, with topper and ornaments composed of stars, daggers, black boxes, o's, x's, dolls composed of typographical elements, and other decorative print objects.] THE CHRISTMAS TREE. BY H. C. DODGE O say can you see by its own sparkling light this beautiful tree filling home with delight? ’Tis the Christmas Tree bending with tokens of love, earth’s angels attending heaven’s angels above. O, say can you hear sweetest music around making home, ever dear, dearer yet with its sound? ’Tis the glad song of childhood’s right merriest glee inspired by the wild wood’s most beautiful tree. O, say you will find on this tree of delight rare gifts all designed to make memory bright from father and mother and daughter and son— from each to the other with love never done. O, say you will feel as the fruits from this tree their beauties reveal a great joy that will free the heart from all sadness and cause it to know the holiest gladness that earth can bestow. Hail, Tree! while we mingle around thee with cheer. All hail to Kris Kringle, who planted thee here. May Christmas’ old story told always with zest give home a new glory and make its own blest. [One line of text in the trunk of the tree:] Christmas Comes But Once a Year
From 1890, one of several Christmas tree shape poems by H. C. Dodge.
02.12.2024 13:43 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2I didn’t so much mind a Zoom defense in July 2021, but when I had my chance to walk at graduation and officially celebrate/get hooded in Spring 2022 for my doctorate, both me and my son got COVID. Had to stay home. Quite the bummer after 10 years of hard work.
27.11.2024 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0who knew! the kaleidoscope was the original distracting social media device in the early 19th century - people were even writing articles bemoaning that boys were obsessed with the kaleidoscope rather than the more worthy telescope, microscope, or periscope www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...
27.11.2024 16:18 — 👍 63 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0Family definitely does a pickle tray every Thanksgiving and Christmas (Pittsburgh).
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