Blog #2

I found it interesting to read about where books, novels, and plays came from. I couldn’t imagine only having church sermons and histories to pick from when reading a book. Our society and culture has come such a long way from those days. I never knew how much the Declaration of Independence influenced newspapers. Writers, and artists. The changes in the print culture we giving writers and authors a “growing sense of identity” and “colonial unity.” It was also refreshing to see that African Americans were finally being counted as a whole person and member of society. Phillis Wheatley even published the first poem by an African American. I also found it interesting how things in the social media have changed, like newspapers for example. Newspapers 1700s drew colonies together and were established for a common cause whereas today I feel as though newspapers and the news only have bad news. Every day you turn on the news 95% of the stories are about someone dying, or being murdered, or the Dow losing more money. Back then real writers who had a voice of the people wrote articles and stories to entertain, not to destroy or upset. However, it was nice to hear how woman were becoming just as educated as men and being allowed to attend schools and read book and break away from the status quo of being a house wife.