This piece was originally published in Zócalo Public Square. My great-grandmother, who was born in the 1880s, passed away when I was about 11 years old. Looking back, it is fairly obvious now that she ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. We Gather Together: Finding Audiences Within the American Postcard Fad -- 2. Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot: Revising the History of the Postcard Phenomenon -- ...

We no longer wish you were here. Or rather, these days, an individual I is much less likely to scrawl such a message on a postcard to a particular You. The collective We and the aggregate You ...