
Numeracy and Crowd Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Numeracy plays a big role in the lives of data journalists, geographers, and demographers who research and measure large crowds.
Posted in: Business, Mathematics
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Numeracy plays a big role in the lives of data journalists, geographers, and demographers who research and measure large crowds.
Posted in: Business, Mathematics
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
With nearly 400 patents to his name, Westinghouse is a beacon of Gilded Age industry.
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Much of the country’s infrastructure was built on convict leasing, read about some of its history.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
...it also became clear to me that I was entering into a rare opportunity. During my ten weeks with the Library of Congress, I would have access to a collection of materials composed largely of textbooks, cypher books, or treatises in the history of math--a collection most of which had never been digitized and, as a result, was generally understudied.
Posted in: Five Questions
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Library offers a number of orientations/classes and sometimes Business Reference takes their turn. This time we are teaching So…you want to research old companies.
Posted in: Business, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
You might not think of either as a “business” topic but they are, because both are their own industries and because logistics - the commercial activity of transporting goods to customers – have been core parts of the U.S. economy and world trade.
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Communication during war is essential and during World War I the U.S. Army needed switchboard operators. More importantly, they also needed operators who spoke French and English fluently.
Posted in: Business, Women's History, World War I
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Have you heard about the Panic of 1907? If not this blog post is a good introduction.
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Funeral homes have since the end of slavery, been an important business enterprise in the Black community – read a bit about that history.
Posted in: African American History, Business