Why we still need Black History Month, even though #28daysarenotenough
In 1843 Noah Webster, said by some to be the founding father of American scholarship and education, was asked by black minister Amos Beman to share “some account of the…
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From Printed Page To Web Page: How Technology Democratized The Dictionary
In 1828, Noah Webster published “An American Dictionary to the English Language,” the first unabridged dictionary of American English. The two-volume lexicon, complete with more than 70,000 entries, took more…