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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

David Hackett Fischer · 1989

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Scott Alexander recommends it
But I highly recommend Albion's Seed as an entertaining and enlightening work of historical scholarship which will be absolutely delightful if you don't fret too much over all of the existential questions it raises.

on slatestarcodex.com · 27 Apr 2016

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.