Postal Constituent Source List

I started keeping this list in November 2022 as it was rapidly becoming cumbersome to include bibliographies on my tiny mini-comics. I only include sources here if I do not include them in the zine itself. I try to include sources on the physical comic where possible, but booklets are made in multiples of four pages, so if a comic is exactly 8, 12, 16, or 20 pages it becomes difficult to fit the sources without adding a significant expense to printing costs.

Imagining Disaster: An Introduction, PC Volume 14, Issue 2.

Sontag, Susan. “The Imagination of Disaster,” Commentary Vol. 40, Iss. 4, (Oct 1, 1965): https://www.commentary.org/articles/susan-sontag/the-imagination-of-disaster/
Benjamin, Walter. “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” Illuminations (Shocken Books, 1968), 255, https://seansturm.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/benjamin-theses-on-the-philosophy-of-history.pdf
Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature : Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. (Harper San Francisco, 1980), xxii.
Rozario, Kevin. The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America. (The University of Chicago Press, 2007), 113.
Rozario, The Culture of Calamity, 115.
Rozario, The Culture of Calamity, 112.
Rozario, The Culture of Calamity, 118.
Rozario, The Culture of Calamity, 123.
Rozario, The Culture of Calamity, 119.
Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature, 51

Not cited are all the postcards from my collection! Here is a favorite:

Pennsylvanian Oil: An Ida Tarbell Origin Story- Volume 13, Issue 5

Black, Brian C. Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History. Rowman & LIttlefield Publishers, Inc: 2012

Black, Brian: Petrolia: The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 2000

Brady, Kathleen. Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker. University of Pittsburgh Press: 1989

Giddens, Paul. The Early Days of Oil: A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania. Princeton University Press: 1848

Olien, Diana Davids and Roger M. Olien. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. The University of North Carolina Press: 2000

Rhodes, Richard. Energy: A Human History. Simon & Schuster: 2018

Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. Free Press:1991, 2009.

What I Know About Ruby and June Volume 12, Issue 5, Dec 2022-Jan 2023

For this issue I relied heavily on old Omaha newspaper articles. I also looked at census records and yearbooks. Here are a few of my favorite items referenced in the mini-comic:

Truth, Volume 12, Issue 4, November 2022

For this issue I found Nell Irvin Painter’s articles particularly revelatory.

John Ernest. “Misinformation and Fluidity in Print Culture; or, Searching for Sojourner Truth and Others.” Legacy, vol. 33, no. 1, 2016, pp. 22–24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.1.0022. Accessed 10 Oct. 2022.
Goldner, Ellen J. “The Art of Intervention: The Humor of Sojourner Truth and the Antebellum Political Cartoon.” MELUS, vol. 37, no. 4, 2012, pp. 41–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42001186. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Humez, Jean M. “Reading ‘The Narrative of Sojourner Truth’ as a Collaborative Text.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1996, pp. 29–52. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3346921. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Inniss, Lolita Buckner. While the Water is Stirring: Sojourner Truth as Proto-agonist in the Fight for (Black) Women’s Rights, 100 B. U. L. Rev. 1637 (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1334.
Painter, Nell Irvin. "8. Difference, Slavery, And Memory: Sojourner Truth In Feminist Abolitionism". The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, pp. 139-158. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711428-012
Painter, Nell Irvin. “Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known.” The Journal of American History, vol. 81, no. 2, 1994, pp. 461–92. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081168. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Podell, Leslie. https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/