December 06, 2004
web site address
Your web site is http://mason.gmu.edu/~mlinhart/MARYCLASSSEPT13... More
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November 28, 2004
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H-Teach H-Teach is a forum for teaching policy, practices and techniques rather than the subject matter of history. Participants are mostly college teachers. Messages are organized by month with relatively few messages during summer months. Without doing a count, it... More
Posted by MaryL at 04:19 PM
November 21, 2004
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The Raid on Deerfield website ‘effectively conveys the past to a “general” audience’. The site tells the story of a raid on Deerfield Massachusetts in 1704 with the abduction of a number of captives from the town. The Deerfield site... More
Posted by MaryL at 01:48 PM
November 06, 2004
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The New York Library Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923 The website for Performing Arts in New York City’s Lincoln Center contains 16,000 items in its database. One segment of the site is the music archive. Material ranges from the... More
Posted by MaryL at 09:50 PM
October 27, 2004
Final_Project_Mary
Plan for Web Site My Web site plans center on Winchester and Frederick County Virginia from 1940 to the present. I would like the site to be a model for a community history resource and archive. Two sites that will... More
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October 24, 2004
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For this assignment, I reviewed the following articles. "Hearsay of the Sun: Photography, Identity, and the Law of Evidence in Nineteenth-Century American Courts" by Thomas Thurston "From Hogan's Alley to Coconino County: Three Narratives of the Early Comic Strip" by... More
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October 02, 2004
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The Wisconsin Historical Society website is rich in content. The Wisconsin Historical Society is ‘a state agency and a private membership organization’. The website includes information about a variety of historical or semi-historical topics of interest to academic and public... More
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September 27, 2004
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One critic of Murray’s book complains that “her utopianism colors all her arguments in this volume, leading her to ignore or play down the more disturbing consequences of technology while unabashedly embracing its possibilities.” Do you agree? Why or why... More
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September 19, 2004
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Web Site Review September 17, 2004 Mary S. Linhart LYNDON JOHNSON The Johnson tapes have been broadcast over CNN (90.1 FM) for several years. The tapes are an invaluable record of the daily activities of a President. The recorded conversations... More
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September 18, 2004
Brainerd, Kansas
BRAINERD, KANSAS TIME, PLACE AND MEMORY ON THE PRAIRIE PLAINS By Kevin Roe http://www.rootinaround.com/brainerd/ Kevin Roe examines the ‘relationship between memory and place’. He is interested in ‘landscapes, architecture and the intangibles that make up a particular place’. Roe’s... More
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September 03, 2004
Mary Scavenger Hunt
My experience with the Scavenger Hunt was an exercise in total frustration. It began when I tried to fix an annoying problem on my own computer where I was getting messages every 30 seconds from Symantec that I was sending... More
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August 30, 2004
What historians do
Goals of historians To determine the truth about the past. To use the past to illuminate the present and the future. To use present knowledge and viewpoints to shed light on the past To expand the body of knowledge. To... More
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