Historical Research & Writing History

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When today's history is discussed in future classrooms or by future historians, we will all be a part of that history.

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History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation. Henry Steele Commager

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Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
C. V. Wedgwood


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  A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana

The Molly Maguires: Tragic History
video credit: Alexander Petyerak

I live in Pennsylvania. The state is full of history, like many other states throughout the United States. I have traveled to many of those states in need of answers to topics I am researching and writing about. The most intensive research I have done is on the Bosler family. I have info on that research here.

If there is something you are interested in learning about or if you have a project that needs researched and your time is limited, please email me and I would be glad to help. Basic research is no problem, however, if the research is a little more involved there may be a fee.

I also do genealogy research. Email me the name of the person you are interested in learning about and I will get back to you with what I have learned and see if you would like further research done.

My research involves using primary & secondary sources such as:

• old newspapers
• census & tax record
• military records
• marriage records
• birth certificates
• baptismal certificates
• death certificates
• travel if necessary

I really enjoy bringing family histories together. I firmly believe that learning about our own family history helps us to better understand who we are.

Here is a quote by Alex Haley ~

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to
our past, bridge to our future.

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Want to Learn More About American History?

The Following Books List Will Help

• Brown, Dee. Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West. New York: Touchstone. 1977.
• Billington, R. Allen. Westward Movement in the United States. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1959.
• Brinkley, Douglas. American Heritage: History of the United States. New York: Viking Press, 1998.
• Lisandrelli, Elaine Slivinski. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Crusader Against Lynching. Springfield, IL: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1998.
• Roosevelt, Theodore. An Autobiography. New York: MacMillian, 1913.
• Davis, David Breon & Mintz, Steven. The Boisterous Sea of Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
• Hirsch, James S, Riot and Remembrance: America’s Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy, New York: Mariner Books, 2001.
• Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
• Carley, Kenneth. The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota's Other Civil War. St. Paul: The Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1976.
• Cox, Hank H. Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862, Nashville: Cumberland House Publishing, Inc., 2005.
• Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901; Bartleby.com, 2000.
• Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.; [Cambridge]: University Press John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A., 1903; Bartleby.com, 1999.
• Linenthal, Edward T. 2001. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. New York: Viking Pres.
• Peckham, Howard H. The Colonial Wars, 1689-1762. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1964.
• Anderson, Fred. The Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in Bristish North America, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 
• Leckie, Robert. A Few Acres of Snow: the Saga of the French and Indian Wars. Toronto: Willey Publishers, 2000.
  
  

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While you are here,  be sure to check out
these pages & links ~

• My articles on Suite 101- broad range of topics ~ American History, Environmental Disasters, Wildlife, Outdoor Hiking, Vacation Places
• Longest Walk 2 - American Indians of all tribes (from the north, south, east, & west) & their supporters left San Francisco, CA in February 2008 to walk across the United States. Their destination: Washington, D.C. What was the purpose of their walk?
• Public Enemies - how did Bonnie & Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, & John Dillinger help J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, keep his job?
• History Videos - videos & podcasts added from youtube and other places on the web that talks about historical & political events.
• History Forum - the place to discuss videos, podcasts, books, and anything else pertaining to history. Feel free to post any thoughts or questions you have about any posted subjects or begin your own thread.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything.  You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.  ~Michael Crichton, Timeline
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A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations.  ~Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America
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