Author Archives: Michael Witmore and Robin Valenza

What Do People Read During a Revolution?

These two visualizations spark two interesting questions: What do people read during a revolution?  What is the connection between what people read and political events? Both images spike dramatically around moments of upheaval in the Western World: The English, American, and French Revolutions, the mid-19th-century Europe-wide overthrow of governments, and World War I, to name […]

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