Some Preliminary Investigations
As we move rapidly into a new phase of this course, more and more time will be spent doing original research. I want your papers to draw on at least five primary sources beyond the works of Franklin on the syllabus. I encourage you to use illustrations as you find them, and from time to time I will provide some sources for your consideration.
You will remember from the course introduction that one of your responsibilities is to assist each other through collaborative efforts. In some instances this will be as simple as sharing interesting things you discover. In other cases, it may be that you serve as primary critics for other members of the class–that invaluable extra set of eyes.
Occasionally there will be something else I’ll ask you to do. This is one of them. There are two wonderful sources for nineteenth century American books and periodicals...both of them called Making of America, or MOA for short.
One of them is housed at the University of Michigan and the other at Cornell. Some of you may have used these resources in other classes. The pages are photographs, not scans. This mean that while you do get the benefit of an actual facsimile of the journal, you lose the ability to search the text with a search engine. So I’m asking you to contribute to a treasure hunt. I’ve given each of you two (in one case three) journals to investigate. The first time around I used the simple alphabet, the second time, I tried to average the size of the press run for fairness’ sake.
What I want you to do is browse the tables of contents for articles which might relate to slavery, emancipation, education for blacks, etc. etc.; all of which interested Franklin. You don’t have to dig deeply into the articles themselves, though you may be tempted to on occasion.
When you find something interesting copy the title and URL of the resource. When you’ve completed the journals, Upload them to your journals. Some of you will find lots, some will find nothing at all. That’s the luck of the draw, I’m afraid. But even negative information is information, and your discovries will keep the rest of the class from plowing the same sterile ground over and over.
MOA assignments, Michigan and Cornell
Senior Seminar: John Hope Franklin
Name
3Bushell, Thomas
4Cirisoli, Justin
5Clark, Stephen
6Cordiero, Justin
7Deschenes, Robert
8DiSanto, Dana
9Gullberg, Heather
10Ilvento, Andrew
11Johnson, Molly
12Karten, Max
13Korzen, Bryan
14McDonough, Daniel
15Pacheco, Brittany
16Raines, Scott
17Santos, Michelle
Update: Some of these are now available as *.pdf files which are searchable, but not all. Look at "format" to see what the options are.
* American Jewess 1895-1899
* The Century (1881 - 1899)
* Appleton's 1869-1881 (2 series)
* The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
* Catholic World 1865-1901
* The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
* DeBow's 1846-1869 + 1952 index (3 series)
* The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
* Garden and Forest 1888-1897 (hosted on behalf of the Library of Congress)
* Punchinello (1870)
* Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers 1880-1891
* The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
* Ladies Repository 1841-1876 (3 series)
* Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
* The Old Guard 1864
* Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
*Overland Monthly 1868-1900 (2 series)
* The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
* The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)
* Princeton Review 1831-1882 (3 series)
* Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
* Southern Literary Messenger 1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index
* The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
* Southern Quarterly Review 1842-1857 (3 series)
* Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
* Vanity Fair 1860-1862
* The Living Age (1844 - 1900)
* New Englander (1843 - 1892)
* The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
* The North American Review (1815 - 1900)
* The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
* The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
* Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
* Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
* The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
