Later this semester we will be reading and discussing a book by Gale Kenny (and remember, if you haven’t done so already, you need to order this book, Contentious Liberties). Professor Kenny also has begun a blog this semester talking about her research process, and in her latest post, she considers the meaning of the word “amalgamation” in abolitionist pamphlets. How did using Google Books lead her to develop a new research question? And how might her findings affect the “distant reading” we did last week with the Lasser article? Feel free to comment on these questions here or at her blog, where you can (virtually) meet one of the authors we will be reading in our course.