10 min Presentation
December 2nd, 2009Final Paper
December 2nd, 2009paper first draft
November 9th, 2009modern propaganda mixing with the old
November 3rd, 2009
Isn’t modern technology wonderful?
Lit Review 1st Draft
October 7th, 2009Proposal 2nd draft
September 21st, 2009Book Review
September 18th, 2009Book Review:
good vs. bad sources
September 11th, 2009Bad historical website:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/621/whats-the-origin-of-uncle-sam
This site is a bad historical source because there is no bibliography, and no reason to be sure that the author did not merely make up the answer.
good historical website:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm015.html
This site is from a trustworthy organization (Library of Congress).
good primary source:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+2400010a))
This source has the bibliographic information for where the poster was published, and is from a credible source (Library of Congress).
Bad primary source:
http://www.zazzle.com/uncle+sam+posters
There is no way to tell which of these posters are genuine, which are airbrushed from genuine, and which are made up.