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of the specifics of historical events are involved. and what we re going to try to do is to try to bring both into today by looking at a debate or rather a literature on mass production and the assembly line. that as articulated by economists, but then using that framework to think about the issues by using an examples a couple of the major historical transformations in several industries in particular. we re going to talk about both the firearms industry as well as the typewriter. now one of the things we should probably first talk about is something called the american system of manufactory that is in the 19th century writers towards the end of the 19th century started using the term to refer to mass production as it developed in the united states, although of course in the early phases of that development. nobody actually used that term but there was also an awareness throughout the early part middle of the 19th century that the united states was developing along sli ....
so janice, obviously, we re in an area here showing a lot of different magazine covers. can you tell us a little bit about what this part of the exhibit is? well this deals with how the media fed the public fascination with the children and you know, it s what feeds what, you know, the public were interested they were young kids in the white house there hadn t been one young kids in the white house since the early 20th century and the media played into that and you can see you know, this sick a sampling of magazine covers from the time period and wanted it to run the gamut of things like newsweek. which would be considered, you know an informed, you know periodical to more tabloidy type of things like motion picture, you know, how long can they hide the truth from caroline? you know these titillating titles when in reality the the article, you know says something like how long can they hide the truth from caroline that she s not just like the girl next door and her fami ....
i want to get us started with a background on the loyalists and can you give us a brief background on the people who identified as loyalists what their lives look like leading up to and during the revolution and what happened to them after the war patrick. do you want to start us off on this? error and gina. thanks for having us. so i i see there s being kind of three basic categories of loyalists. there are people who really just wanted to remain neutral in the war. but because they were trading in violation of nonprotation or selling livestock to the british. they were there. retarded as well a lot of the native americans wanted to stay out of the war, but they got sucked into it. there were some religious groups like quakers and mennonites who were opposed to war in principle and were often seen as deciding with the british. they were also loyalists who some of them who were believed in tory principles of obeying the king no matter what and that resistance to to lawf ....
the industrial revolution in the united states and great britain. okay, let s get started in this second half of the material. we re going to be discussing mass production and the american system of manufacturers. now as you well know. there are differences in the way economists and historians discuss issues in particular. i would sort of say historians plays a great emphasis on archival information descriptive statistics and testimony that was contemporary to the time in contrast social scientists, especially economists look very much for big overarching themes or a framework that will connect it together and sometimes that means ignoring the the details of the specifics of historical events are involved. and what we re going to try to do is to try to bring both into today by looking at a debate or rather a literature on mass production and the assembly line. that as articulated by economists, but then using that framework to think about the issues by using an examples ....
exhibit is? well this deals with how the media fed the public fascination with the children and you know, it s what feeds what, you know, the public were interested they were young kids in the white house there hadn t been one young kids in the white house since the early 20th century and the media played into that and you can see you know, this sick a sampling of magazine covers from the time period and wanted it to run the gamut of things like newsweek. which would be considered, you know an informed, you know periodical to more tabloidy type of things like motion picture, you know, how long can they hide the truth from caroline? you know these titillating titles when in reality the the article, you know says something like how long can they hide the truth from caroline that she s not just like the girl next door and her family aren t like your neighbors, you know, they re in the white house you had media pointing out there the equivalent of a royal family for this co ....