today i spent my time looking up new books to be used as sources in my paper. first i located the Eric Foner book about Reconstruction. it's a big book so obviously has a lot of information that i'll have to sort through, but at this point it isn't what i'm looking for. i'm trying to focus my efforts specifically on the general hypotheses for the ( Read more... )

i am currently having very serious problems concentrating on finishing my term paper. while many here at furman and in the region haven't been personally affected, the murder of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor has had a big impact on me during the last 24 hours. I've lived in the Washington, DC area my entire life, and have more recently ( Read more... )

the prospectus on historiographical issues is due soon, i figured i needed more sources to refer to. so while i had looked up William G. McLoughlin's "Revivals, Awakenings, and Reforms" (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1980), i hadn't been able to physically read it because someone else had checked it out. so i had reserved it for when it ( Read more... )

our meeting to discuss our research topics is tomorrow, so this is a little last minute. i now know that i will be combining a specific topic- the racial division of Southern Protestant churches, with the broader question of religion's role in society. i came across the specific topic directly from our timeline discussion of the Civil War era in ( Read more... )

you could say this is my first complete research journal entry, because i have finally picked my topic of the analysis of religion in 19th century America and the more global context of the importance of religion for humanity. the initial bibliography is due friday so i am doing serious research now. i started and centralized research for this ( Read more... )

since our topic selection is due on friday, i suppose now would be a good time to start considering what i most want to write 12 pages about. as of right now, i'm deciding between something along the lines of how American Indians differed from or viewed whites, and the role religion plays in society. the only problem is making it specific enough ( Read more... )

introduction of research portion of term paper. did library scavenger hunt, which involved me completing several steps to make me more knowledgeable about the resources that Furman's library offers. went to many websites stemming from furman library's webpage, including The American National Biography, JSTOR, America: History and Life, and the ( Read more... )

this isn't an official entry, technically, because i am not doing any kind of research about a specific topic relevant to History 21. but i have been thinking independently for the past couple of days, and have come up with several questions with very broad and universal (no pun intended) implications. this explosion of such weighty questions ( Read more... )

1) List ten things you want to say to people but know you never will ( Read more... )

o man i just realized that i really need a new user picture thing cuz ive had this one for months and its boring and small and doesnt change or anything. and jebus everyone else changes theirs like once a week. but i dont know where to go to get them ( Read more... )