Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 34: Telephones

In this episode, your host calls to chat through the history of telephones!

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Stefoff, Rebecca. 2006. The Telephone. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark.

Fischer, Claude S. “Gender and the Residential Telephone, 1890-1940: Technologies of Sociability.” Sociological Forum 3, no. 2 (1988): 211–33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/684365.

“ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL AND THE TELEPHONE.” Scientific American 102, no. 23 (1910): 462–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26038686.

Menke, Richard. “The Medium Is the Media: Fictions of the Telephone in the 1890s.” Victorian Studies 55, no. 2 (2013): 212–21. https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.55.2.212.

NYE, DAVID E. “Shaping Communication Networks: Telegraph, Telephone, Computer.” Social Research 64, no. 3 (1997): 1067–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40971199.

Cobbs, Elizabeth. 2017. The Hello Girls : America’s First Women Soldiers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,.

Fischer, Claude S. 2010. Made in America : A Social History of American Culture and Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Fischer, Claude S. 1992. America Calling : A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fischer, Claude S., and Glenn R. Carroll. “Telephone and Automobile Diffusion in the United States, 1902-1937.” American Journal of Sociology 93, no. 5 (1988): 1153–78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2780368.

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