Loyalty and Memory: A Civil War Scrapbook in Baltimore
| dc.contributor.author | Huebner, Emily | |
| dc.contributor.department | History and Historic Preservation | en_US |
| dc.contributor.program | Bachelor's Degree | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-12T19:28:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-12T19:28:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | Julia Rogers Research Prize: Junior/Senior Winner | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper is evidence of the power that a primary source can have over a researcher when that source inspires more questions than answers. When I was first introduced to the series of Civil War Scrapbooks in Goucher’s Special Collections I had not planned to write a paper about American history. My majors are in Spanish and History, and I had expected to write about Latin America, or at least to use a primary source in Spanish for my research paper. The mystery of the scrapbooks, however, was too tempting to resist. The resources in Goucher’s library were central to my research. I spent many hours in Goucher’s Special Collections looking at the six scrapbooks, and whenever I needed to give my research direction I would study the shelves of the library, looking for titles that could give new insight to my research. As a result, the majority of my secondary sources are books that I found in the library. The process of writing this paper showed me how much research is driven by curiosity. When I first saw the scrapbooks I immediately wanted to know more about who made them, what the creator’s life had been like, and whether there were more scrapbooks like these. I realized that the newspaper clippings of the scrapbook were not going to give me the answers that I wanted; I would need to learn more about Baltimore during the Civil War and follow the clues the primary source gave me to find out more about these scrapbooks. The only answers I would get were the ones that I found for myself. This project gave me the opportunity to use my research skills to solve an intriguing mystery. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 32 p. | en_US |
| dc.genre | research papers | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/M21724 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/2246 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Goucher College, Baltimore, MD | |
| dc.rights | Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu. | |
| dc.title | Loyalty and Memory: A Civil War Scrapbook in Baltimore | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |