We live in an age of information. The internet provides us with 24/7 access to all types of information—news, how-to articles, sports scores, entertainment news, and congressional votes.
But what do we do with all of this knowledge? How do we sift through and interpret all it all?
We are not the first people to ponder these questions.
Today, Alejandra Dubcovsky), an Assistant Professor at Yale University and author of Informed Power: Communication in the Early South), takes us through the early American south and how the Native Americans, Europeans, and enslaved Africans who lived there acquired, used, and traded information.
Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/082)
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