In my rough draft, as is probably the issue with many of us, my primary sources were lacking. My topic is broadly based on the development of the "skyline" and other architecture in New York City, but specifically in the Downtown region. It aims at analyzing the effects of Downtown on the overall scheme of the city and vice verse. It's a difficult topic because it can incorporate such a wide spectrum of time. I have chosen to start from a date in 1916 when a new Zoning Ordinance was approved for New York City; this was a turning point and influentially so in many ways for New York City.
Included in my rough draft are a few primary sources. First and foremost, the Zoning Ordinance of 1916 is quoted and summarized to give the reader a slight background knowledge of what was happening and why it was being implemented in New York City. Luckily, I was able to find a PDF version of the "clean" ordinance (it had been added to a few times since then up until 1932, I believe; those updates and amendments are included in the PDF I found.) Along with the ordinance, the majority of my primary sources fall into the periodicals from the New York Times. Many of these deal with the years from 1910-1920, when debate about the Zoning Ordinance and discussion of its effects were fresh in everyone's mind and very apparent in the look of the buildings. I found roughly a dozen articles that dealt with my topic in some way. These were relatively easy to find through Montclair's subscription to JStor.
The New York Times articles are hardly enough, I realize. They give a good general background for the layman on the Zoning Ordinance and how similar issues were being dealt with in other countries (specifically Germany), though they typically stop at a short pointed opinion.
Maps are going to be a great accelerator of my research. Montclair's library was very limited with their selection of archived maps and atlases, so I may have to hop a bus into New York to get to the public library. Either way, primary sources have been an issue thus far and will most likely prove to be a hassle towards the end of my writing.
I am usings song lyrics as my major primry sources. My paper is about Oakland CA in the late 1980' and early 1990's. I choose to use lyrics written by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Tim Armstrong of Rancid because both artists are from Oakland and its surrounding East Bay Area. The lyrics of the songs have guided my research, I listened to the urban issues that they addressed in their songs and than researched them. By doing this I was able to find out what problems were worth writing about. As far as finding these sources I was lucky because I looked no further than my CD collection.
I wrote my rough draft using the thesis that social reform directly before and during the Progressive Era ended Tammany Hall machine politics. I found some primary sources but feel I repeated them instead of analyzing them for my paper. The first source I looked through was the historical New York Times archives. I had trouble finding specific articles that support or refute my thesis. I found only one.
I used a book from another class to find secondary sources. I reviewed sources listed at the end of a chapter on social reform and found some secondary sources that I used for the historiography.
My next idea was to use Google scholar to locate primary source articles and books. I had some success with finding articles on social settlement houses, response to industrialization, and the voting system. All these were vital in supporting my thesis.
I lastly went to the US Census Borough to locate information on immigration. Another support of my thesis was that immigration allowed for the rise in machine politics. I discovered that immigration numbers and census numbers from 1900's New York supported this claim. I found many of my secondary sources through Google scholar and other journals.
I believe my biggest fault was using my primary sources as support of my thesis instead of thoroughly analyzing them.
My research for the semester has revolved around child labor and restrictive legislation in Massachusetts during the late 19th and early 20th century. I intend to use the actual Bills and Laws which were enacted in response to the growing problem with child labor. In addition to the legal documents, i have chosen selective statistical information for my analysis and interpretation. The statistical information is available from the Bureau of Labor, the US Census records. Also, many newspaper articles from the New York Times, local Massachusetts, and other mini-press papers of the time period which may be available. These are important because they allow me the ability to follow the reaction of society to the enactment of labor restriction as time progressed. The articles give many perspectives of the issue and for the most part layout any type of argument which could have developed as a result of the legislation. Many photographs of working children have yet to be analyzed, but my thoughts are moving toward a general direction. Photos can help determine where children were working and how strenuous the work appeared to be on the children. Other ways of interpreting photo's' can help bring undiscovered thought into a research paper as well. Many photos recovered have been from the Library of Congress, and they span over decades of time and are categorized by place and subject matter.
For my paper, I decided to write about Italian Immigrants from the New York area and how their lives were affected from the surrounding population, but how they were active in their own communities and shaped the world around them. Unfortunately, so far, I have the same problem as Jonny does. I have not been able to find many primary source documents that I could use in my paper.
I mostly used websites that supported my idea about how Italian-Americans shaped their own neighborhoods and what life was like for them. Also, I have used a book that has been very helpful. The name of this book is "The Golden Door."
I have already gone to Montclair State's library but I think in order to finish this paper and utilize enough primary source documents, I have to go back and look for more during this week.
For my research paper I choose to explain Brown Vs The Board of Education and the effect it had on the desegregation of public schools in America. For my primary sources I first used legal documents to find out how the case broke down step by step. For my other sources I used different books and novels that shared personal experiences and effects of the out come of the decision.
My main book that I used was: "Brown v. Board of Education: equal schooling for all" Which explains how though after the supreme court made its decision the process took quite a while to take affect.
I found most of my other sources online and discovered there were many other court cases fighting for the same cause around the same time which I also included in my rough draft.
My paper is on the Newark Riot of 1967. I focused on how the major political groups were made of White citizens including the police force which caused the Black citizens to be pushed around and to feel unsafe within their communities. As the problem with many people most of my documents are secondary sources. I was able to locate Star-Ledger news paper articles from 1967 that gave an account of the riot as it was happening. I found the articles useful in getting a feel for the atmosphere of Newark during that time.
My research this semester has consisted of sorting through primary and secondary sources on Cesar Chavez. My primary sources include historical newspaper articles from The New York Times, current newspaper editorials from The Dallas Morning News, and La Prensa San Diego Newspaper. Further, I used articles from Beyond Chron:San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News. In addtion, I used an article from The Denver Post Newspaper. Further, Cesar Chavez's speeches were used as another primary source to this paper. I selected these sources because they cover what my thesis topic is about. These articles give the reader a sense of what the memory of Chavez was like in the past compared to the present. The first draft of my paper does not contain all these articles, but you will see them in the final submission. I found these sources at MSU's library databases and some were found on a Google search.
The primary sources, in which, I have used for my paper on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire are physical recounts from the New York Times archives as well as actual photos from the current physical site. The newspaper articles include testimonies from individuals that witnessed the incident first hand. Also, I have interviewed a current firefighter and was able to gather detail information regarding fire safety. Through these articles I was able to gain an understanding of the intensity and severity of the fire. By using actual testimonies I believe this will strengthen the validity of my paper. I was able to track down these documents through an online database of the New York Times archives. Through visiting of the site first hand I was able to capture a better understanding and layout of the incident.
I chose sources that mostly came from the New York Times. the articles from the period that I am researching not only give facts about what was happening at the time, but it also gives you an idea of what people felt was news worthy. In addition, the language that is used in the articles give you an idea of what the majority felt regarding a topic. Many of the articles that I found about African American police officers in the early twentieth century make the officers appear to be unwanted and disrespected. i also used census data to give the paper some cold numerical facts.
Since my research is about genterfication in Hoboken NJ my primary soursces inclued websites that include newspapers like the New York Times, from the 1980's. I have found valuable information in many articles about how Hoboken was changed in a few decades. I also found a History of Hoboken, which has helped my research in describing how the city had started off, and how it grew into the city it is today. Census records help with population numbers and dominant age groups. I found some helpful books that were written about my topic about a new class moving into Hoboken kicking out the working class that helped build the city for so long.
While I did not include some of my primary sources in my rough draft on Prohibition, I do have a few and am trying to work on incorporating at least one more. I have a few New York Times articles from the 1920s...currently looking for ways of getting The Irish Globe during that period. I am also using lyrics from artists of the time like Bert Williams who sung songs like "Save A Little Dram For Me" and "The Moon Shines on Moonshine" that describe feelings about Prohibition and drinking. I also have, through an article, some letters written to Mayors of cities during this period. These letters are on behalf of immigrant wives who feel alcohol is the problem behind their poverty and downfall of their family. I would like to find at least one more primary source to smooth out some rough edges.
I have found a lot of newspaper articles online detailing the aftermath of the Detroit riots. Also articles from various magazines like TIME. Aside from these periodicals I am using census tracts for various neighborhoods, as well as maps to go along with the figures.
I am looking at the articles to see what people at that particular time felt were the reasons behind the upheaval. There were many biases then, and I wanted to see what "scholars" were thinking about it as well. Once I understand their thinking, I am comparing that to the figures obtained by various census reports and the tracts of the city to explain why some rioted and other did not. The maps show a clear line drawn across the city in terms of rioted area and that left alone.
So far in my paper, I have used census data to discover when and where Poles moved to the U.S., as well to see how Polish immigration was affected by anti-immigration acts. I am using newspaper articles from the Historic New York Times as well. I am in the process of searching for more.
So far have found a good amount of primary sources through the use of the Historical New York Times database offered at our library. Since my topic is on the Irish Gopher Gang from Hells Kitchen in New York there are many articles that discuss the issues that surrounded the gang in the early 1900s. As I continue to research I am trying to gather census data on the issue to see the different types of people that lived in this area at the time and how it affected the social aspect of the town. I hope to find more primary documents as I continue to research, I am hoping to may be find health records of people to see how the poor housing arrangements may of drove some of these people into becoming part of this gang.
I am utilizing the census data and educational studies as primary sources. I also acccesed a database of drug usage statistics. I relate the economical evidence of the underground economy to educational opportunity.
My paper is about the transition from Times Square as a center of the sex industry to disney world. I have utilized a few primary sources. The source that has proven most helpful to me in my research is the Historical New York Times. The Times includes statistics, stories, as well as pictures. It also mentions different laws, which I looked up. In addition, I went to Times Square to interview different shop owners and "old timers" to hear their stories. They are extremely interesting people. I also looked at the Times Square zoning charts from the Times Square Alliance website. I took a walk around Times Square to study the old advertisements that were peaking through the new flashy ones, which was interesting.
For my paper, which focuses on the San Francisco earthquake that occurred in 1906, its fairly difficult to find primary sources. A lot of the primary material I'm using is out of other, secondary sources. Books that I'm reading have interviews and other first hand accounts from people that lived through the incident.
Ultimately, the best primary source that I have come across, and this goes for other papers that I'm working on as well, is the historical New York Times. The paper's archives are easily available on proquest which can be found on the sprague library home page. The news paper has a great reputation for accuracy and the writing is generally unbiased.
When my paper is finished I hope to have a wide variety of first hand accounts from diaries and interviews as well as news paper articles from the event and its aftermath.
For my paper, I am writing about the Portuguese in the Ironbound section of Newark. I want to try and learn why they chose to go there as opposed to other areas. I am having a lot of trouble finding primary sources on this topic because based on the information I have received, this is not a big part of history. I cannot find newpaper articles and have only found few maps that show signs of the Portuguese.
My library and the Montclair State library are proving to be useless. This is why I am forced to rely on the internet. I'd much rather have a book to look through than a screen to read from.
The conclusion I have come to is that no one has ever tried to answer the question I am asking. If they have, i'm not finding it.
I have been using newspaper articles from the Boston Herald, the Post, and others. I selected them because they related to my topic, which is the influence of the Irish in municipal politics in Boston in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. I found the articles online through the newspaper's websites by searching through their archives collection, which surprisingly goes back a long way, some as early as the 17th century.
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In my rough draft, as is probably the issue with many of us, my primary sources were lacking. My topic is broadly based on the development of the "skyline" and other architecture in New York City, but specifically in the Downtown region. It aims at analyzing the effects of Downtown on the overall scheme of the city and vice verse. It's a difficult topic because it can incorporate such a wide spectrum of time. I have chosen to start from a date in 1916 when a new Zoning Ordinance was approved for New York City; this was a turning point and influentially so in many ways for New York City.
Included in my rough draft are a few primary sources. First and foremost, the Zoning Ordinance of 1916 is quoted and summarized to give the reader a slight background knowledge of what was happening and why it was being implemented in New York City. Luckily, I was able to find a PDF version of the "clean" ordinance (it had been added to a few times since then up until 1932, I believe; those updates and amendments are included in the PDF I found.) Along with the ordinance, the majority of my primary sources fall into the periodicals from the New York Times. Many of these deal with the years from 1910-1920, when debate about the Zoning Ordinance and discussion of its effects were fresh in everyone's mind and very apparent in the look of the buildings. I found roughly a dozen articles that dealt with my topic in some way. These were relatively easy to find through Montclair's subscription to JStor.
The New York Times articles are hardly enough, I realize. They give a good general background for the layman on the Zoning Ordinance and how similar issues were being dealt with in other countries (specifically Germany), though they typically stop at a short pointed opinion.
Maps are going to be a great accelerator of my research. Montclair's library was very limited with their selection of archived maps and atlases, so I may have to hop a bus into New York to get to the public library. Either way, primary sources have been an issue thus far and will most likely prove to be a hassle towards the end of my writing.
I am usings song lyrics as my major primry sources. My paper is about Oakland CA in the late 1980' and early 1990's. I choose to use lyrics written by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Tim Armstrong of Rancid because both artists are from Oakland and its surrounding East Bay Area. The lyrics of the songs have guided my research, I listened to the urban issues that they addressed in their songs and than researched them. By doing this I was able to find out what problems were worth writing about. As far as finding these sources I was lucky because I looked no further than my CD collection.
I wrote my rough draft using the thesis that social reform directly before and during the Progressive Era ended Tammany Hall machine politics. I found some primary sources but feel I repeated them instead of analyzing them for my paper. The first source I looked through was the historical New York Times archives. I had trouble finding specific articles that support or refute my thesis. I found only one.
I used a book from another class to find secondary sources. I reviewed sources listed at the end of a chapter on social reform and found some secondary sources that I used for the historiography.
My next idea was to use Google scholar to locate primary source articles and books. I had some success with finding articles on social settlement houses, response to industrialization, and the voting system. All these were vital in supporting my thesis.
I lastly went to the US Census Borough to locate information on immigration. Another support of my thesis was that immigration allowed for the rise in machine politics. I discovered that immigration numbers and census numbers from 1900's New York supported this claim. I found many of my secondary sources through Google scholar and other journals.
I believe my biggest fault was using my primary sources as support of my thesis instead of thoroughly analyzing them.
My research for the semester has revolved around child labor and restrictive legislation in Massachusetts during the late 19th and early 20th century. I intend to use the actual Bills and Laws which were enacted in response to the growing problem with child labor.
In addition to the legal documents, i have chosen selective statistical information for my analysis and interpretation. The statistical information is available from the Bureau of Labor, the US Census records. Also, many newspaper articles from the New York Times, local Massachusetts, and other mini-press papers of the time period which may be available. These are important because they allow me the ability to follow the reaction of society to the enactment of labor restriction as time progressed. The articles give many perspectives of the issue and for the most part layout any type of argument which could have developed as a result of the legislation.
Many photographs of working children have yet to be analyzed, but my thoughts are moving toward a general direction. Photos can help determine where children were working and how strenuous the work appeared to be on the children. Other ways of interpreting photo's' can help bring undiscovered thought into a research paper as well. Many photos recovered have been from the Library of Congress, and they span over decades of time and are categorized by place and subject matter.
For my paper, I decided to write about Italian Immigrants from the New York area and how their lives were affected from the surrounding population, but how they were active in their own communities and shaped the world around them. Unfortunately, so far, I have the same problem as Jonny does. I have not been able to find many primary source documents that I could use in my paper.
I mostly used websites that supported my idea about how Italian-Americans shaped their own neighborhoods and what life was like for them. Also, I have used a book that has been very helpful. The name of this book is "The Golden Door."
I have already gone to Montclair State's library but I think in order to finish this paper and utilize enough primary source documents, I have to go back and look for more during this week.
For my research paper I choose to explain Brown Vs The Board of Education and the effect it had on the desegregation of public schools in America. For my primary sources I first used legal documents to find out how the case broke down step by step. For my other sources I used different books and novels that shared personal experiences and effects of the out come of the decision.
My main book that I used was: "Brown v. Board of Education: equal schooling for all" Which explains how though after the supreme court made its decision the process took quite a while to take affect.
I found most of my other sources online and discovered there were many other court cases fighting for the same cause around the same time which I also included in my rough draft.
My paper is on the Newark Riot of 1967. I focused on how the major political groups were made of White citizens including the police force which caused the Black citizens to be pushed around and to feel unsafe within their communities. As the problem with many people most of my documents are secondary sources. I was able to locate Star-Ledger news paper articles from 1967 that gave an account of the riot as it was happening. I found the articles useful in getting a feel for the atmosphere of Newark during that time.
My research this semester has consisted of sorting through primary and secondary sources on Cesar Chavez. My primary sources include historical newspaper articles from The New York Times, current newspaper editorials from The Dallas Morning News, and La Prensa San Diego Newspaper. Further, I used articles from Beyond Chron:San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News. In addtion, I used an article from The Denver Post Newspaper. Further, Cesar Chavez's speeches were used as another primary source to this paper. I selected these sources because they cover what my thesis topic is about. These articles give the reader a sense of what the memory of Chavez was like in the past compared to the present. The first draft of my paper does not contain all these articles, but you will see them in the final submission. I found these sources at MSU's library databases and some were found on a Google search.
The primary sources, in which, I have used for my paper on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire are physical recounts from the New York Times archives as well as actual photos from the current physical site. The newspaper articles include testimonies from individuals that witnessed the incident first hand. Also, I have interviewed a current firefighter and was able to gather detail information regarding fire safety.
Through these articles I was able to gain an understanding of the intensity and severity of the fire. By using actual testimonies I believe this will strengthen the validity of my paper. I was able to track down these documents through an online database of the New York Times archives. Through visiting of the site first hand I was able to capture a better understanding and layout of the incident.
I chose sources that mostly came from the New York Times. the articles from the period that I am researching not only give facts about what was happening at the time, but it also gives you an idea of what people felt was news worthy. In addition, the language that is used in the articles give you an idea of what the majority felt regarding a topic. Many of the articles that I found about African American police officers in the early twentieth century make the officers appear to be unwanted and disrespected. i also used census data to give the paper some cold numerical facts.
Since my research is about genterfication in Hoboken NJ my primary soursces inclued websites that include newspapers like the New York Times, from the 1980's. I have found valuable information in many articles about how Hoboken was changed in a few decades. I also found a History of Hoboken, which has helped my research in describing how the city had started off, and how it grew into the city it is today. Census records help with population numbers and dominant age groups. I found some helpful books that were written about my topic about a new class moving into Hoboken kicking out the working class that helped build the city for so long.
While I did not include some of my primary sources in my rough draft on Prohibition, I do have a few and am trying to work on incorporating at least one more. I have a few New York Times articles from the 1920s...currently looking for ways of getting The Irish Globe during that period. I am also using lyrics from artists of the time like Bert Williams who sung songs like "Save A Little Dram For Me" and "The Moon Shines on Moonshine" that describe feelings about Prohibition and drinking. I also have, through an article, some letters written to Mayors of cities during this period. These letters are on behalf of immigrant wives who feel alcohol is the problem behind their poverty and downfall of their family. I would like to find at least one more primary source to smooth out some rough edges.
I have found a lot of newspaper articles online detailing the aftermath of the Detroit riots. Also articles from various magazines like TIME. Aside from these periodicals I am using census tracts for various neighborhoods, as well as maps to go along with the figures.
I am looking at the articles to see what people at that particular time felt were the reasons behind the upheaval. There were many biases then, and I wanted to see what "scholars" were thinking about it as well. Once I understand their thinking, I am comparing that to the figures obtained by various census reports and the tracts of the city to explain why some rioted and other did not. The maps show a clear line drawn across the city in terms of rioted area and that left alone.
So far in my paper, I have used census data to discover when and where Poles moved to the U.S., as well to see how Polish immigration was affected by anti-immigration acts. I am using newspaper articles from the Historic New York Times as well. I am in the process of searching for more.
So far have found a good amount of primary sources through the use of the Historical New York Times database offered at our library. Since my topic is on the Irish Gopher Gang from Hells Kitchen in New York there are many articles that discuss the issues that surrounded the gang in the early 1900s. As I continue to research I am trying to gather census data on the issue to see the different types of people that lived in this area at the time and how it affected the social aspect of the town. I hope to find more primary documents as I continue to research, I am hoping to may be find health records of people to see how the poor housing arrangements may of drove some of these people into becoming part of this gang.
I am utilizing the census data and educational studies as primary sources. I also acccesed a database of drug usage statistics. I relate the economical evidence of the underground economy to educational opportunity.
My paper is about the transition from Times Square as a center of the sex industry to disney world. I have utilized a few primary sources. The source that has proven most helpful to me in my research is the Historical New York Times. The Times includes statistics, stories, as well as pictures. It also mentions different laws, which I looked up.
In addition, I went to Times Square to interview different shop owners and "old timers" to hear their stories. They are extremely interesting people. I also looked at the Times Square zoning charts from the Times Square Alliance website. I took a walk around Times Square to study the old advertisements that were peaking through the new flashy ones, which was interesting.
For my paper, which focuses on the San Francisco earthquake that occurred in 1906, its fairly difficult to find primary sources. A lot of the primary material I'm using is out of other, secondary sources. Books that I'm reading have interviews and other first hand accounts from people that lived through the incident.
Ultimately, the best primary source that I have come across, and this goes for other papers that I'm working on as well, is the historical New York Times. The paper's archives are easily available on proquest which can be found on the sprague library home page. The news paper has a great reputation for accuracy and the writing is generally unbiased.
When my paper is finished I hope to have a wide variety of first hand accounts from diaries and interviews as well as news paper articles from the event and its aftermath.
I found most of my sources at NYU others were found through research in our library and online.
Landmarks PReservation Committee, Laws of New York, Interviews and pictures as well as Newspaper articles.
For my paper, I am writing about the Portuguese in the Ironbound section of Newark. I want to try and learn why they chose to go there as opposed to other areas. I am having a lot of trouble finding primary sources on this topic because based on the information I have received, this is not a big part of history. I cannot find newpaper articles and have only found few maps that show signs of the Portuguese.
My library and the Montclair State library are proving to be useless. This is why I am forced to rely on the internet. I'd much rather have a book to look through than a screen to read from.
The conclusion I have come to is that no one has ever tried to answer the question I am asking. If they have, i'm not finding it.
I have been using newspaper articles from the Boston Herald, the Post, and others. I selected them because they related to my topic, which is the influence of the Irish in municipal politics in Boston in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. I found the articles online through the newspaper's websites by searching through their archives collection, which surprisingly goes back a long way, some as early as the 17th century.
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