Now that our nation has abandoned the phrase, "drill, baby drill" -- amazing how quickly some phrases go out of style, isn't it? -- it's time for a new phrase: "scan, baby, scan." That's directed at books.google. It's so helpful to have those antebellum books and pamphlets up on the net in full text format. And one of these days I want to talk about one of my current projects, which is on quantitative popular constitutionalism. It looks to the phrases that Southerners used in their speeches on constitutional interpretation in the years leading into Civil War. (I wrote some about this back in 2008 at legal history blog.)
The Chronicle has a lengthy article on the turn to quantitative analysis in the humanities. Very exciting discussion. And maybe one of these days Gulati and Weidemaier and I will get back to our quantitative art history project on the images on bonds!
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