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Images and Imagination | Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615
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Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615. October 18, 2011. 8212; fullcirclecomm @ 6:26 am. A photograph captures a particular place at a particular moment of time. We may know its provenance; often, we do not. In either case, people interpret and re-interpret the printed (or digitized) photos immediately, or at some point (days, months, or years) afterwards. Errol Morris, in. Site), the possibility was frightening, as this photo shows. American Photography and the American Dream. James Guimond discus...
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The Broom: Problem 8A | Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615
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Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615. October 31, 2011. The Broom: Problem 8A. 8212; fullcirclecomm @ 1:10 am. In 18th century America, when mothers shook their home-made brooms at their misbehaving children, the brushes often broke off from the rod–creating the expression “flying off the handle” to express an angry outburst. By 1813, brooms were not such perilous instruments. The broom in the right-hand corner of John Krimmel’s. Enter the Machine-Made Broom. In 1810, Dickenson invented a foot-tre...
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A Fishing Trip to Alexandria Clerk of Courts | Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615
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Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615. September 13, 2011. A Fishing Trip to Alexandria Clerk of Courts. 8212; fullcirclecomm @ 10:13 pm. A small city does have certain advantages for the historian-detective. I went to the Alexandria Clerk of Court this morning, which is in Room 320 of the Courthouse at 520 King Street. He also took me around to a few other spots in the office–a map that showed which parts of the city were annexed and when; several volumes compiled by WPA people during the De...
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In the style of…. | Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615
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Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615. November 29, 2011. In the style of…. 8212; fullcirclecomm @ 6:41 am. Assignment: Find a passage you admire stylistically, analyze it, write your own passage as similarly as you can. Annette Gordon-Reed, The Heminges of Monticello, page 373. Comments about the style of the passage. Imitation of the passage. Yet, through all the talk by critics in the early 19th century about “social depravity,” “evil,” and “sexual slavery,” w...Leave a Comment ». You are commen...
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Mysteries in a Map | Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615
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Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615. October 28, 2011. Mysteries in a Map. 8212; fullcirclecomm @ 5:14 pm. In 1881, in an article in. David C. Barrow described how the negro has adapted himself to his new circumstances post-slavery, using his family’s landholdings in Oglethorpe County in northeast Georgia as an example. To make his point, he included two maps. He drew of the 2,000-acre property: one in 1860 when farmed by slaved labor and one in 1881, under a tenant labor system. The most common ...
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Which Comes First–Evidence or Theory? | Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615
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Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615. November 16, 2011. Which Comes First–Evidence or Theory? 8212; fullcirclecomm @ 6:23 am. This is the question I pondered as I read. By Richard White and considered some research that I am doing in Alexandria. I considered the example of the historical theory on our problem sheet (Turner’s Frontier Thesis) and what I took to be the theory in. Theory: The body of rules, ideas, principles, and techniques that apply to a subject. So I guess chronologically, Richar...
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The Whole Picture: Problem 8B | Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615
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Coming Full Circle: Paula Whitacre/Hist 615. November 2, 2011. The Whole Picture: Problem 8B. 8212; fullcirclecomm @ 3:52 am. The next part of our assignment was to look at John Krimmel’s entire painting, The Quilting Frolic. (Discussion of the broom detail is in the post below.) For this, I relied on my classmates’ observations on their blogs. Is enshrined as a portrait above the mantel. More to come as I read more blog posts. 1 Comment ». Comment by Michael Shumaker. 8212; November 3, 2011 @ 3:29 am.
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