Author Archives: julia.sung
The Lost but now Found museum
I started out the online tour with the mystery game “Who burned down the museum.” The game was extremely through, I was surprised at how many mini-movies there were to each clue or item you clicked on. Unfortunately that is also … Continue reading
Getting to the source
A majority of Tyler Anbinder’s sources are primary sources, he backs up his informations and arguments with documents like newspaper quotes, first hand account stories, and letters. 1. Times,1855 New York census; [James D. Bum],1865), 5-6.July I, 1859; Tribune, … Continue reading
Privatizing Water
After the revolution, New York City was left in shambles. There were no trees, no clean water, and what wasn’t destroyed by the great fires, were burnt down by the British. To make matters worse nyc had a severe drought which caused of … Continue reading
The subliminal message of Pope Day
Gilje argues in his piece The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City that Pope Day was originally a parade of the Pope with the Devil right behind him whom seemed to be be influencing the Pope, while … Continue reading
First man on the moon!
The Dutch West India Company
The Dutch colonizers had a big plan to create New amsterdam (mordern day New York) into a major trading center. The Dutch West India Company proved to be a significant factor into what New York City is today. The DWIC … Continue reading
Do I know you? No but I follow you on twitter
The world we live in today is so heavily dominated by technology, and the internet, it would only make sense of historians were able to look back and analyze what people actually did on the internet. Documenting every single Tweet … Continue reading