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MADE IN AMERICA
Personal blog · madeinamericathebook.wordpress.comhistoryculture
MADE IN AMERICA is a personal blog at madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com about history and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog by Claude Fisher, author of Made in America, for historical posts drawing on the book, such as chairs being a luxury in colonial America. Commenters also point to his essays on social trends.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Notes on American life from American history.
What Hacker News says?
One of the more surprising things that I found in Claude Fisher's Made in America [1] is the idea that as late as the American colonial period, chairs were a luxury item. Presumably stools and benches were available, but sitting on the ground is the default choice. [1] https://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/
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on “The great Medieval water myth (2013)”Submitted The Myth That Never Moves as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAmerica was founded as a democracy only for land-owning white men. We have gone back and forth through various levels of plutocracy and populism, but overall have been getting more democratic. For one thing, we're nowhere near the plutocracy of the pre-income-tax, late nineteenth century. While recent trends have not, in my opinion, been going in a good direction, I wouldn't be worried about this particular issue at…
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on “America’s new aristocracy”Submitted Geographical mobility in America has been declining for decades as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis article reads like a sophisticatedly typeset data dump commandeered by the author's academic cachet. The author's original blog posts look more interesting to me and appear to be less skewed towards whatever the interests of Asterisk are. https://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/2023/09/12/an-epi... https://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/an-epi... My impression of his original thoughts after a…
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on “The myth of the loneliness epidemic”
