Monthly Archives: November 2011

                For this week we were assigned the problem of finding a paragraph we liked in a historical themed book, dissecting it to discover how it works and mimicking the prose in our own attempt at a paragraph. I decided … Continue reading →

This week we read Railroaded by Richard White. The question that was poised for our assigned problem related to the position of theories within the discipline of history as well as within this book. Theory in this context can come … Continue reading →

For this week’s problem we looked at a painting from 1813 titled the “The Quilting Frolic” by John Lewis Krimmel and selected an item, or set of items, to research into. Krimmel was a German-born American who became well known … Continue reading →