Benjamin Schmidt

Benjamin Schmidt is the visiting graduate fellow at the Cultural Observatory at Harvard and a graduate student in history at Princeton University. He writes about digital humanities at Sapping Attention.

Nobody Said 'Racial Equality' in 1865: The Anachronistic English of 'Lincoln'

Nobody Said 'Racial Equality' in 1865: The Anachronistic English of 'Lincoln'

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You can learn a lot from the ways that Tony Kushner's Oscar-nominated script strays from the vernacular of Lincoln's day. More »

The Foreign Language of 'Mad Men'

The Foreign Language of 'Mad Men'

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The show prides itself for historical accuracy—but do the characters really talk like people from the '60s? More »

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