Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who
and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects,
profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember
and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines
dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their
creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social
context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary
information objects, technologies, and trends. These documents
include the following: *"Exaltation of Innana," a Sumerian hymn
composed c. 2300 BCE by the high priestess Enheduanna, likely the
first known author...of anything *The "We Can Do It!" poster
everybody knows is Rosie the Riveter calling women to work in the
factories in World War II. Except it's not, and she isn't *Joseph
McCarthy's "list" of Communists that ruined lives and careers,
because it was believed - even though it never existed *The "He has
waged cruel war..." passage on slavery, deleted from the
Declaration of Independence *The poorly designed Palm Beach County
"butterfly ballot," on which the 2000 U.S. presidential election
may have hinged *And the lesser-known stories behind the Zapruder
Film, the Watergate tapes, the Obama birth certificate, airplane
black boxes, Thanksgiving, IQ tests, the Star-Spangled Banner, why
Americans spell the way they do, Nobel Prizes, Wikipedia, and how
you're cooking dinner tonight
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