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Blog Posts Review
- Various shades of primary sources
- Read every type of source in a range of ways
- How do we assess the credibility of sources?
- Agency and causation
- Precision
- From sources to an argument
Reading
- Free write: what is the difference between an “archive” and a “collection”?
- Key Concepts:
- Archive vs. collection
- Provenance
- Original order
- Collective control
- Authenticity
“Materials created or received by a person, family, or organization, public or private, in the conduct of their affairs and preserved because of the enduring value contained in the information they contain or as evidence of the functions and responsibilities of their creator, especially those materials maintained using the principles of provenance, original order, and collective control.
Stephen Brier and Joshua Brown, The September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001, Radical History Review, Fall 2011.
- http://911digitalarchive.org/
- key concepts
- Is this an archive or a collection?
- “archivist-historians”
- born-digital vs. scanned acquisitions
- inequality of access to digital media
- review different methods of inputting information: text and image scans, emails, websites, listservs, text via form on site, images and video via upload, call-in system, collaborations with other collectors (e.g. Sonic Memorial Project and Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs), digital and analog interviews and sound recordings (including collaborations with Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, and the Chinatown Documentation Project;
- perspectives of “ordinary” people
- challenges ahead: more standardized open-source database and web publishing platform, more complete metadata, redesigned web site, permanent archival home (expected to turn over to LOC in 2013)
Group Project
Group 1
Caroline, Anton, Eli, Cameron, Leanardo
Group 2
Estevan, Tatsiana, Phillip, Jordan Burgos
Group 3
Felipe, Jordan Smith, Robert, Pablo
Group 4
Guang, Cary, William, Stephen, Shaif
- United States Military
- April 1968
- Khe Sanh Vietnam
- To show the resupplying mission for the US troops.
- This document is a primary source because it’s an actual picture that was taken at the site giving a first hand account of the battle field.
- I believe this United States Military is a reliable source, moreover, this picture speaks for it self because it is an actual photo.
- The picture begs the question what was the general mood of the troops in in Vietnam in April of 1968 in the front lines of the battle.
- Was the picture taken to shred light on the hardship and lack of supplies for the troops?
- Maybe it was meant to gain support for pulling troops from Vietnam.
Culturally the Vietnam War was a major issue for the candidates running during the 1968 presidential elections, particularly because of the war and the civil unrest of African American struggle to be treated fairly. Another issue was the racial issues facing African Americans serving in the military. The Vietnam war marked the first American war to be integrated and the first time that African American were encouraged to join the service. It is said that although African Americans was allowed to serve in the military “they have sometimes faced almost as bitter a hostility from their fellow Americans as from the enemy.” War is never a good thing, however, one might ask if it wasn’t for the war, which helped to show up the racial problems and make it necessary to address them. Because it was in 1968 with increasing problems and frustration with lack of racial progress that led to race riots on military bases and ships that the services’ response in creating interracial councils and racial sensitivity training in the military. Readings such as the Military war achieves might be a good place to get some answers.
According to the Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. “African Americans often did supply a disproportionate number of combat troops, a high percentage of whom had voluntarily enlisted. Although they made up less than 10 percent of American men in arms and about 13 percent of the U.S. population between 1961 and 1966, they accounted for almost 20 percent of all combat-related deaths in Vietnam during that period. In 1965 alone African Americans represented almost one-fourth of the Army’s killed in action. In 1968 African Americans, who made up roughly 12 percent of Army and Marine total strengths, frequently contributed half the men in front-line combat units, especially in rifle squads and fire teams.” In the 1968 Election Richard Nixon campaigned as an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) supporter and seek to align southern voters with his doctrine. However, Wallace a segregationist gained more of the southern support and eventually voters from Nixon. Another question I would ask is what if Wallace had win the elections of 1968 what would life be like today?
A) Baruch college library sources, Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
B) Berman, Marshall; Spring 2008, Vol. 55 Issue 2, p5-7, 3p,
C) To be concise, its about the assassinations and the rise of Nixon to power.
A)http://www.archives.gov/research/
B) Department of State. U.S. Embassy, Mauritius. (03/12/1968 – )
C) telegrams, correspondence, reports, and memorandums from the United States Embassy
http://faculty.virginia.edu/nwinter/papers/ssw.pdf
A) Political Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1998
B) Abigail J. Stewart, Isis H. Settles, Nicholas J. G. Winter
University of Michigan
C) Analyses of Variance in Midlife Political Activity, by Relationship to Social Movement
With the emotional mix of the best mesmerized date in the world there are a few things i would like to point out.
First of all as a person that was not in the united states during the 9/11 attack, realizing that it was the best event to ever be historically recorded is kind of amazing. We are living through history that will definitely be referred to in years to come. Since it was so preciecly documented it shows how history is becoming more of a precise, reliable, credible science.
No one can doubt the fact that it didn’t happen.
Furthermore, i would like to point out the number of causalities ~2700. Thats a massive amount of people. There are towns in this world that are smaller than that, probably cities. Taking out an entire town is a big deal, at least in my book. Thus we saw all the changes that happened in 2003, security tightening up and all sorts of regulations to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
The analytical part that i was thinking about while doing the reading is why did something have to happen for us to realize that the possibility of this happening yet so minute still exists. Who would do such a thing? what would be the consequences of such a disaster? and most importantly WHY?
For future reference, to prevent attacks we shouldn’t wait for them to happen. we should try to plan ahead, and to do so we can take a look at other countries and see what they have thought of – This is not cheating, its saving “lifes”. for example ill take israel, they have such a tight security because of the vigorous experience they have been having with terror attacks. There are metal detectors and check points that you must pass through almost everywhere you go, especially public locations. Another concern i have for NYC is that bridges, tunnels, and malls are not highly regulated in the security aspect of it. Yet courts have metal detectors.
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