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                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 →

As per request, I held off posting this till class. Attached below is my findings in a word document with hyperlinks and images. barrow_blogpost_shaver

For this week’s project we had to find two or more unusual images that hinted, by their oddness, at a mystery. I decided to use one of the German satirical cartoons produced during the war and published in a well-known … Continue reading →

This week we looked at court cases. Court cases can often give a glimpse into sides of society rarely recorded and reveal undelaying values and societal assumptions via displaying their deviation. The event that we studied for problem #5 was … Continue reading →

Apologies for getting this up so late, I ended up being knocked out with a bad migraine yesterday and did not get this up when I planned to. This week we looked at the 1894 divorce case filed by the … Continue reading →

Just like the “locked door” murders mystery stories are so fond of employing, Mamie Grover’s inquest tells of a woman who “supposedly” committed suicide with a pistol behind a locked door with people still in the house. To unravel the … Continue reading →

I debated between two sets of wills and finally decided to go with the wills of Robert Christian and Caroline Carson for this assignment. These two wills were roughly contemporary in terms of time to one another (1831 compared to … Continue reading →

EDIT: Ninjafixed typo on second map.