KC's Adventure through HIST 390

This week we took the midterm exam which I believe went over pretty well. For this blog we were supposed to go back and look out our soldiers files to see what they did after being mustered out. My soldiers file is filled when many pension requests because after his time in the army he […]

This week is Spring Break so of course there is no class.  I have used this time to get caught up on my blog posts as well as study for the mid-term coming up in a week.

This class started out by Prof Robertson getting every caught up on Zotero and helping us get our libraries set up in order to share with him. In class professor went to the waybackmachine and showed us how much not only the Mason site has changed but webpages in general. Then game the discussion on […]

This weeks class started with a fantastic presentation by Andrea of the Blenheim House. She gave the class a lot of interesting facts about the whole history of the Blenheim house from pre Civil War to its current state that it is in today. We briefly went over primary sources again and went into learning […]

In this weeks lecture we went over briefly copyright and that fact that we used documents before the 1928 copyright was enforced. This makes it somewhat easier to use information that we find on our soldier. One website I was able to find some information on my soldier was made by the NY State Military […]

This weeks class was canceled due to the snowstorm.