{"id":20021,"date":"2010-08-26T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=20021"},"modified":"2010-08-26T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T19:18:28","slug":"it-is-very-bad-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/20021","title":{"rendered":"‘Shitty piece  . . .  It is very bad history’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘It was Benjamin Franklin’s favorite typeface, and the first printings of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were set in Caslon.’<\/a>
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I am a history junkie. <\/p>\n

And I loved the scene in HBO’s John Adams miniseries<\/a> when Adams disputed the accuracy of the above painting (video, below). And how Ben Franklin’s approach to French diplomacy was more  . . .  ardent,<\/em> than formal.<\/p>\n

(I also loved how the miniseries used titled camera angles – like the United States was founded by villains from the old Batman tee vee series<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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William Caslon’s fonts<\/a> were the typefaces of the American Revolution.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here’s some great reads<\/a> on early American documents – as handy PDFs.<\/p>\n

And here’s a link<\/a> to John Adams on DVD.<\/p>\n\r\n\t

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