Last Wednesday (9/20) Amy and I got to meet with an Apostolic couple, Rubin and Crystol Luthi to talk about their perspective on our project as well as look through some family records and Apostolic resources. To begin, we sorted through a lot of information on the Luthi, Moser, and Schmidt families. I created a […]
Month: September 2017
Latino Heartland
Vega, Sujey. Latino Heartland: of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest. (Clashes at the Crossroads, United We are Stronger) New York: New York University University, 2015. Ive been coming up short this week with useful resources on the Latino experience in the Midwest- let alone Stevens County. Then I finally remembered that last year, I literally […]
Contract & Week 5 Update
Amy and I spent today’s meeting organizing ourselves and gawking over our beautiful website. Our goals were Finalize our contract Look into more Latino Resources Talk about the purpose and plan for oral histories Check out our site! Because my dear partner Amy went a little crazy with web design over the weekend, we actually […]
Morris Intercultural Education Initiative
Manolis, Argie, Cristina Ortiz, and Keni Zenner. “Morris Intercultural Education Initiative: A Community Needs and Assets Assessment.” Morris, 2014. “We are more likely to hear about a Latino achievement gap than a success story. We often hear of generalized statistics, but rarely of local, context- and as-set-driven figures.” The Morris Intercultural Education Initiative was a […]
Perry Klopfenstein and My AC Experience
George Orwall said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” Perry Klopfenstein would agree. He gave many a quote like this on Saturday evening during his lecture on the history of the Apostolic Church. I needed to take a few days to reflect on […]
Must Use Resource: Immigration to the Great Plains
Looking through some of our annotations for secondary sources, I realized that I wrote, “Must Read” with nine exclamation marks behind one source on Immigration to the Great Plains from 1864 to 1914. After taking note of the rather long timeline and seeing the words “great plains” that grabs every Minnesotan’s attention, I skimmed the […]
Professor Gross
Today, Amy and I met with Stephan Gross who is the Archive Director and Associate Professor of History to discuss some different perspectives on our project. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation with Professor Gross, because he was able to narrow our interests in some ways and expand our research searches. When we were discussing the […]
Annotated Bibliography 1
I believe that we have done a great job of searching through sources and finding a good number of sources that hold a different emphasis and touch on specific factors that have impacted migration in the world, Midwest, and Stevens County. We will be taking these sources and compiling a list of questions that address […]
Our Moment
As I have mentioned on a previous page, my partner, Amy and I are focusing in on Stevens County. This small western county of Minnesota is made up of multiple towns and townships. Morris, the county seat on the eastern edge of the county, is where a University of Minnesota campus can be found. Due to […]