Field Trip Tomorrow!

Let me preface this by saying that I have not made nearly as much progress as I would have liked to by this point. That being said, most of the progress that I have made has dealt with the timeline. I suppose I am ok with this… the timeline is one of two interactive components on our website, so it is important that it be fully developed. I expect that I will have it completely done, citations and all, within the week.

I have neglected to explore many secondary sources, although I suspect Anne Whisnant’s works will play a big role in our project, both for her personal interpretation of BRP history as well the wealth of primary sources that her book and website contain.

Overall my (personal) lack of progress is disheartening and embarrassing. I am, however, very pleased to announce that Liz and I have made plans to visit the Western Regional Archives (WRA) tomorrow to begin researching! The WRA houses two collections that are of particular interest to us. First, they are in possession of a collection of photographs from the Blue Ridge Parkway. These pictures show everything from the construction of the parkway to buildings that were on the parkway and possibly more. There are a dozen or so boxes, so I haven’t gone through them all. The WRA recently came in possession of a collection from a local tourism commission. This collection has articles upon articles of leaf-lookers in Western North Carolina, and I am told that there are dozens pertaining to the Parkway. We imagine our website having a section under “Tourism” that discusses leaf-lookers, so we are hoping that we may possibly gather a lot of sources for this page. Maybe—dare I hope?—enough sources for the page. Liz also gave me an ethnography that she got from the National Park Service folks about people in this region and their relationship with the BRP. I haven’t been able to peruse this source quite yet, but my understanding from the abstract was that this source focuses on locals in the area. Perhaps I will use our free class time tomorrow to set down with a nice cuppa and read this ethnography.

I sincerely apologize for my poor progress this past week or so, but we are planning to kick things up a notch beginning tomorrow. If our hunches and Heather South’s description of her collections are anything to judge by, we will be finding more pictures and leaf-looker articles than we know what to do with!

Embedding and Troubleshooting Timelines

This has been a whirlwind of a week and it’s showing no sign of easing up any time soon! My timeline is far from done, but it is up and running on our website. I had initially put in our contract that the timeline should be close to complete by September 30th. I didn’t realize that I chose the worst week imaginable to add another deadline to my list. However, it is coming along nicely! In our last class I mentioned that I was experiencing issues with the newspaper articles loading onto the timeline. I think I resolved my issue, though I’m not sure how or what was wrong to begin with. When I would “clip” an article on Newspapers.com and embed the link onto the timeline spreadsheet, the newly added link would not load properly when the timeline was viewed. I figured out that I could not use the link available immediately after I clipped the article. Rather, I had to go into the “My Clippings” option under the menu and retrieve the embed link from there. Does that make sense? No? It’s ok. It doesn’t make sense to me either. I’m not sure why I have to go this longer, alternative route, but as long as it works I’m not complaining! After I figured this out I experienced little trouble in adding new articles. I plan on adding a few more (not exceeding 20 total articles). I also plan on adding the proper citations in at the bottom of the page, but have not found the time to do that quite yet.
I also managed to create a Title Slide! The only problem is I cannot figure out how to get the photo credit to display. It’s on my spreadsheet, but does not appear on the slide… so I will continue working on that.
The only other problem I am having is how the timeline displays on the website. When viewed in its own tab the timeline is nice and wide and the pictures look great. When viewed on the website the width is substantially smaller and the newspaper article images do not look NEARLY as good. I think this is because of the sidebar menu feature on our theme. I don’t know if we want to completely get rid of the sidebar menu, so I have a plan to try and fix the issue with a different variation of the embed code. When grabbing the embed code from Newspapers.com, the website gives the option of small, medium, and large images. I have been using large so far, but I think I will go back and try the small or medium options.

All in all I am quite pleased with how it is coming along. I wish the timeline was completely finished at this point and the citations added below, but I will just have to double my efforts in this coming week. I have included the timeline below, but it also lives on the homepage of our website.

 

 

 

 

Back to “Driving Through Time”

“Parkway Route Meets Dispute.” Raleigh News and Observer. July22, 1939. North Carolina Collection. Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://docsouth.unc.edu/blueridgeparkway/content/9013/. Accessed September 27, 2017.

Just as a side note, in looking for a new source to explore, I was surprised when the National Park Service offered up Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway as the source to go to for historical maps and documents (which is where I found the source for this blog post). I guess I didn’t quite realize that this website was so influential. I foresee it playing a big role in our research!

I had originally planned to look at a different type of source besides newspapers (since that’s all I’ve done so far), but then I located the PERFECT source to include on my timeline to discuss the dispute over routing the Blue Ridge Parkway through the Eastern Band of Cherokee Reservation. I already have an article on my timeline discussing surveying the land through the Reservation, but I wasn’t going to keep it unless I could find additional sources that would illustrate why there was issues between the government and the Cherokee on the topic of the BRP. I found exactly what I desired in “Parkway Route Meets Dispute: Specific Route Slated to Be Written Into Bill to Acquire Cherokee Land.”

The bill that was proposed was would apparently allow the government to route the Parkway through any part of the Reservation and would give the Cherokee next to no compensation for their land. F.B. Bauer, Vice Chief for the Eastern Band of Cherokee, strongly opposed this measure, calling it another attempt by the government to take Indian land and not pay for it. Bauer also called the plan an invasion of the individual rights of tribal members.” R.G. Browning, state engineer, refused to support any proposal leading the BRP around the Reservation on account that it would add too much money to the costs.

I found this article particularly interesting. There was (and still is) a lot of positive media about the Parkway, but it is important to remember that the construction/routing of the Parkway was not always met without resistance. In this instance, the Cherokee—who have already suffered at the hands of the government—had every reason to believe that this deal with the government would not be beneficial to the Tribe.

In the end the Parkway did not cut through the Reservation. Rather, the entrance to the BRP is located right outside Cherokee. It seems as though this article is was written towards the beginning of this dispute, so I look forward to digging into this a little more to see how the story played out.

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Parkway. Also, Messing up My Timeline.

McPherson, Holt. “Good Afternoon.” High Point Enterprise. June 8, 1961. Accessed September 19, 2017. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13874431/the_high_point_enterprise/#.

The source that I have chosen to focus on this week is a newspaper article that I included in my timeline. After rereading Holt McPherson’s article, I feel it could be useful in a few different places in our website. McPherson touches on a few topics that I think are important. To begin with, McPherson wrote this piece on a particularly special occasion—the 25th anniversary year of the Parkway! This along seems like a nice talking point. McPherson also discusses the fact that, even at 25 years old, the Parkway is not yet complete. I am well aware of the lengthy amount of time that it took to construct the BRP, but I still find it interesting to see how this was discussed at the time. Also detailed are the many beautiful qualities of the Parkway, which McPherson describes romantically. I particularly liked the part where, in describing the Great Smoky Mountains, McPherson says, “These peaks live up to their name and are distinguished by a smoky blue color reminiscent of campfires of the early Indian tribes who once lived hereabouts and named these wooded ranges.” What I really hear in McPherson’s descriptions, though, are the wonderful things about this area that made travelers want to migrate here.
Leisurely purposes are not the only ones listed, however. The author implies the BRP was actually important to preserving the “pioneer” life of this area. Perhaps this way of living is preserved because the Parkway has made it possible for those outside of this area to finally migrate here and witness how life was in Appalachian history (another way this article could be used in our narrative)? Preservation of Appalachian culture is not the only practical purpose the BRP serves, according to McPherson. It is also home to an abundance of flora and fauna. Liz and I have thought about including conservationists and naturalists in our research as a distinct group of migrants, so the mention of the importance and diversity of the wildlife along the Parkway was interesting.
Overall I really loved McPherson’s article. It really romanticizes the Blue Ridge Parkway in a way that makes it seem exotic, like a vein through which visitors may travel to and glimpse a piece of a time long past. As I read it I could almost see the blue haze of the mountains I could faintly hear the wildlife and smell the dirt and trees. I would wager that anyone who didn’t want to visit the Parkway probably wanted to after McPherson was done with them. I am sure we will end up using it, maybe in more than one place.
In other news, I have barely had time to do any other work on the project. I am currently preparing to present the last history website that I made at a conference on Friday and I am beyond terrified. I did attempt to add a new source on my timeline, but that didn’t go well for me. The image won’t load and I have yet to figure out why. Alas, my poor timeline, once fully functional, will have to wait a little longer…

The Beginnings of a Timeline…

After a lot of trial an error, I have a skeleton of my timeline up! I will continue building on this particular line and putting the end result up on our Blue Ridge Parkway website. I have worked with Timeline JS before so I wasn’t as hesitant as I would have been, but I did still struggle. In particular, I struggled with adding the images. Clearly I figured it out, but only after a good bit of frustration on my behalf. I am grateful that this assignment occurred so early in the semester. I was planning to have a near-to-complete timeline ready in ten days, so this was definitely good practice for what is to come.

 

 

**Also, for future reference, to add it on to WordPress, you have to embed the code under the “Text” tab, not the “Visual” tab.**

Milestones, Menus, and Outward-Facing Writing

Liz and I haven’t been able to begin research but, after talking to lead archivist Heather South at the Western Regional Archives (WRA), we have put a lot of thought into how we would like to organize our website. As of now we have (what we THINK will be) our menu laid out, complete with landing pages for “umbrella” topics and subpages that will allow us to explore specific aspects of the umbrella topics. We fully understand that these subpages may change. These pages were created based on where we believe primary sources will be plenty. However, as every student of history knows, sometimes primary sources just don’t turn up the information that you want! Something almost always varies from how you think it will turn out. That being said, we are entering this next phase of the project—the research phase—with an open mind. Our menu is a tad extensive so I won’t go over the whole thing now. For anyone who is interested in seeing it, go to http://xroads.coplacdigital.org/unca/.

We are preparing to reach out to archives/agencies that we believe will help us in our research. This step will be done tomorrow and will most likely be a joint effort. There are five or six places that we must contact, so we will divide this work up. Our first big “milestone” is to complete our Timeline JS and StoryMap JS additions. I will be developing the timeline and will most likely be using sources that I can acquire from any computer with internet access, so I can put off delving into the archive stacks for just a bit longer.

As far as the time period that our project will cover, we foresee it spanning over a 50 year time period, perhaps a little longer if we decide to elaborate on the more recent influence the Parkway has on Western North Carolina. However, we do not expect to go through 50 years of history on every page! The construction of the Parkway will only cover a certain period of time, as will the page discussing displacement of locals. Likewise, the section discussing locals who worked on the Parkway will be a small number of years. I know this seems like a long period to cover, but we fully believe it possible as we will not be covering each section as extensively as an academic paper would. Seeing as it is a) a website and b) meant to target the general public and not historians or scholars, it will have to be somewhat succinct to keep the attention of our viewers. I’ve seen some history websites before and… well… even for a history major they can be kind of boring and dry sometimes. That’s definitely not what we want! We are going for a more outward-facing writing style as opposed to a strictly academic style.

I was already looking forward to creating this website, but as our plans develop and we get an ever-clearer idea of what we are doing, the site begins to come alive and with it the Parkway’s history. I can’t wait to uncover the story that it has to tell.

As per request by Professors Dunn and Turner, this post was also to include goals and due dates. I already write a lot anyways, so I simply included an excerpt from our contract containing our “milestone” dates, which can be found below:

 

Schedule of Milestones

    • September 25th: Both members must establish contact with all community partners and archives that house sources to be included in project.
    • September 30th: Kristen will have complete (or near complete) list of newspaper articles to be included on TimeLine JS. Images of all newspapers must be included. Liz will have complete list of locations that she will include on StoryMap JS. Images of all sources must be included.
    • September 31st: If partners have not already visited at least two of the archives/organizations that house BRP documents, this must be done by today.
    • October 3rd: Integrate our Timeline and StoryMap into the project site.
    • October 5th: Complete and submit final contract.
    • October 26th: Have basic structure of website set up, complete with project description/interpretation on “Home” page, description/interpretation on landing pages of each section on menu (“Construction,” “Locals,” and “Tourism”), near complete “Acknowledgments” page, possibly and “About Project” page, and description/interpretation on one to two subpages under each section of menu. This means we intend to have at least one subpage done under “Construction,” “Locals,” and “Tourism.”
    • October 31st: Rough Draft of websites due by 4pm.
    • November 9th: Gathering of Primary Sources to be completed. Finish interpretation of sources and construction of website pages.
    • November 19th: Complete all pages, begin refining and proofreading.
    • November 23rd: Add any finishing touches. Website should be ready for full launch by midnight. The week should be spent getting comfortable with site and preparing for final presentation.
    • November 30th: Present website to the class.
    • December 7th: Complete any additional final touches as recommended by class, professors, and Leah after presentations.
    • December 11th: Final Website due.

[Insert Witty Blog Title Here.]

Liz and I spent these last few days working on our contract. This isn’t the first contract that I have created for a project like this so I was familiar with the general contents and expectations for this assignment. I found the assignment to be overall very therapeutic in organizing my thoughts and energies. It felt so good to iron out the layout of the website and flesh out our mission and intentions! And nothing—I repeat NOTHING—makes me happier than a proper schedule for things. We may have been a little ambitious with our milestones but I feel like we got a pretty good idea for how and when we want things done. I am sure we will have to revisit and/or tweak our contract based on feedback, but the organization that accompanied this task was both welcomed and appreciated.

In regards to the immediate tasks that we have set for ourselves, Liz and I plan to reach out to the institutions that house information about the Blue Ridge Parkway by tomorrow afternoon. We the next assignment we have set due is a (near) completion of our Timeline JS (which I will do) and StoryMap JS (Liz’s project). Luckily, because of the information that I would like to include on my Timeline, much of my research can be conducted anywhere that I have a computer and internet access. I am imagining this timeline will consist mostly of newspaper articles that will be accessed by Newspapers.com. Fortune is once again in my favor as UNCA had purchased access North Carolina newspapers so I won’t even have to sign up for a free trial.

In addition to our About Us page, we have also created the pages that we believe will most likely be included on our website. I have organized them so all the subpages (topics that fall under a bigger umbrella topic) appear under the proper section of the website. For instance, Liz will be working on the “Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway” section. One subject that falls under this area is the involvement of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), so the CCC section will be a subpage under “Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway.” I also took the liberty of creating our “About Project” page and an Acknowledgement page… you know, so we can thank all the wonderful archives that are about to spend an excessive amount of time with us.  So, without further ado, our contract:

 

Contract for Blue Ridge Parkway Website

 

Mission

This project will explore the connection between the Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP) and migration through Western North Carolina. The main goal of our project is to explore the history of the Blue Ridge Parkway through the lens of migration. This means we will be researching the individuals who came to this area to help build the Parkway, the locals who were displaced or otherwise affected by the construction, and the tourist that have been attracted by this project. This will be done through a thorough examination of primary sources, and with the support of appropriate secondary sources. The secondary sources will be a combination of websites, books, and articles that will be found by both partners. Primary sources will include articles, government documents, oral histories, letters, pictures, etc. These items are located at a few various places, so multiple agencies will need to be contacted. Among these are the Western Regional Archives (WRA), Ramsey Library Special Collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway archives located across the street from the WRA, and may also include the National Parks Service and the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area.

Our goal is to show the people of Western North Carolina how this area has been shaped by the Blue Ridge Parkway beyond the physical borders of it. This is also intended to be a gift to the National Parks Service to illustrate a piece of their history. We will explore migration through three main foci: the construction of the Parkway, the locals, and tourism. Each of these topics will be a separate page on our website, accessible through our menu. Each section will contain subpages that are also accessible via the menu or the parent-page. Some ideas we’ve had about sub-pages so far are pages on different responses from Politicians and Conservationists in regard to the construction of the Parkway, as well as different pages for the distinct groups of tourists that frequently visit this park (i.e. Leaf Lookers, Conservationists, Film Industry, and Cyclists). These subpages may change based on the availability of primary sources. We do not yet know how these may be effected. We will have a better idea once we begin visiting the archives.

Tools

Naturally, we will be using WordPress to create the actual website. We have decided to use the Activello theme by Colorlib. We felt it was a clean look that would give us more options for the layout and presentation of our sources and interpretation. We also liked the placement of the menu as a small, out-of-the-way entity at the top of the page. We already decided that we did not like the accent color of the menu (purple), so we changed it to “Blue Ridge blue.” At least that’s what we are calling it. We may use scanners and camera to take high resolution images of primary sources.

We plan on using Timeline JS to show the development of the Parkway. The timeline will display primary and/or secondary sources as the appropriate to the development of the Parkway. At this moment, we are considering using the Timeline to display newspaper articles pertaining to the construction of the Parkway. Again, depending on the amount of sources we find, this may change.

Another tool we will be utilizing is StoryMap JS. We are currently planning to use the StoryMap to illustrate when the various parts of the Parkway were completed (Construction began around 1937 and did not end until around 1987). Ideally, this StoryMap would tell a more interactive history of the building of the Parkway. This idea may change depending on the primary sources that are available on this topic.

Schedule of Milestones

    • September 25th: Both members must establish contact with all community partners and archives that house sources to be included in project.
    • September 30th: Kristen will have complete (or near complete) list of newspaper articles to be included on TimeLine JS. Images of all newspapers must be included. Liz will have complete list of locations that she will include on StoryMap JS. Images of all sources must be included.
    • September 31st: If partners have not already visited at least two of the archives/organizations that house BRP documents, this must be done by today.
    • October 3rd: Integrate our Timeline and StoryMap into the project site.
    • October 5th: Complete and submit final contract.
    • October 26th: Have basic structure of website set up, complete with project description/interpretation on “Home” page, description/interpretation on landing pages of each section on menu (“Construction,” “Locals,” and “Tourism”), near complete “Acknowledgments” page, possibly and “About Project” page, and description/interpretation on one to two subpages under each section of menu. This means we intend to have at least one subpage done under “Construction,” “Locals,” and “Tourism.”
    • October 31st: Rough Draft of websites due by 4pm.
    • November 9th: Gathering of Primary Sources to be completed. Finish interpretation of sources and construction of website pages.
    • November 19th: Complete all pages, begin refining and proofreading.
    • November 23rd: Add any finishing touches. Website should be ready for full launch by midnight. The week should be spent getting comfortable with site and preparing for final presentation.
    • November 30th: Present website to the class.
    • December 7th: Complete any additional final touches as recommended by class, professors, and Leah after presentations.
    • December 11th: Final Website due.

Division of Labor

           Both partners will contribute to the following pages: Home, Acknowledgments, and About Project. These pages will essentially describe the project as set forth by the class curriculum and professors and its relation to COPLAC (About Project), an introduction and overview of the subject chosen (Home), and acknowledgments of all community partners, archives, and individuals apart from the creators who contributed significantly to the creation of this website. The Home page will most likely include the timeline, which will be completed by Kristen.

Liz will be in charge of all information and research for the “Construction” section and all subsequent sections. As of right now Liz believes this section will be divided up into the following sections: Politicians, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Conservationists. This section may also include the subpage about locals who worked on the construction of the Parkway. If this subpage ends up appearing under both sections, both partners will contribute to this page These topics may change and/or develop based on where primary sources lead the researcher. This section is also where the StoryMap would go.

Both Liz and Kristen will contribute to the “Tourism” section. This section will most likely have more topics under it, so the workload will be split as evenly as can be managed. As of right now both partners envision this section including the following topics or subpages: Leaf lookers, Conservationists and Naturalists, Film Industry, Cyclists, and a page about the amount of people who visit the BRP per year. These topics/subpages may change or develop based on where the primary sources lead the researchers.

Kristen will be in charge of all information and related research to the “Locals” section and all subsequent sections under “Locals.” At this point in time, she foresees this section including a page on the locals who worked on the construction of the BRP, those who were displaced by the placement of the Parkway, ways in which locals use the Parkway as a means of temporary migration, and how the local economy and culture was influenced by the BRP project. These sections may change or develop based on where the primary sources lead the researcher. The section about locals who helped with the construction may or may not be connected with “Construction of the Parkway” as well. If it ends up appearing under both sections, both partners will contribute to this page.

Super Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History

Whisnant, Anne Mitchell. Super Scenic Motorway: a Blue Ridge Parkway History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Accessed September 13, 2017. http://site.ebrary.com.proxy177.nclive.org/lib/asheville/reader.action?docID=10425420.

 

Super Scenic Motorway may be one of the main secondary sources we can refer to throughout our project. A fairly new addition to Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP) scholarship, Super Scenic Motorway is a thorough examination of the BRP from multiple facets: the conception of the project, how locals reacted, the goal of bringing tourism in, how the Parkway was for public good, additions to the Parkway and more. It is a sizeable book so I am not sure whether or not I will have time to read it from cover to cover, but I will be “mining” it. As it was written by a trained historian, it contains a nice bibliography where we can go to get ideas for additional places to look for primary sources. (It even listed a collection from UNC-Asheville’s very own Special Collections! I guess this means Liz and I will be paying Gene and Colin a visit soon!) I found that, with the exception of a few books, a lot of the literature on the history of the BRP is rather old and not necessarily scholarly. At least, many of the books do not have bibliographies or even indexes. Although I still need to use some of these sources I am a little more reluctant. However, Super Scenic Highway is just about everything a historian could ask for in a secondary source. It is current, well-laid out and informative, and—most importantly—all of the sources used are documented in the book so we can track them down!

This book is also important because of its author. Anne Whisnant is the authority on the BRP. She is well-respected in the history community and her book is absolutely necessary to add to our secondary sources. She also works for the University of North Carolina system and is quite active on Twitter. Perhaps it may even be prudent to reach out to her at some point about our project, either for advice or mere self-promotion!

How “Driving Through Time” Can Help Us All

Whisnant, Anne Mitchell. “Driving Through Time.” Accessed September 1, 2017. http://docsouth.unc.edu/blueridgeparkway/.

The secondary source that I explored for this post was “Driving Through Time,” a digital humanities project created by a group of individuals at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill that is focused on the history of the Parkway. “Driving Through Time” offers a look into the history of the Parkway from various points of view. Through the toolbar one can navigate to primary sources, search by topic, and peruse a list of “Overlooks.” Each Overlook is a piece Parkway history that contributes to the bigger narrative of the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The list of “Overlooks” includes discussions about the conception of the idea for the Parkway, the effects of the Parkway on local communities, the influence of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on the project, and more. Personally, I feel the website could be helpful for me and Liz in providing ideas as well as some possible primary sources. One can access letters, oral histories, newspaper articles and more by going to “By Subject,” which can be found under the “Explore” tab on the menu. We certainly plan on doing plenty of research in archives, but a lot of the sources located on this website are from the UNC- Chapel Hill Special Collections which is a far greater distance than either of us wish to travel. This site will also be useful to Liz and me as it is a model for how a digital exhibit on the Parkway can be laid out.

I also feel this source could be helpful to everyone in the class as it is a great example of what we are all attempting to do—create a digital exhibit for a piece of migration history in our geographic area. Apart from the actual content on the site, I believe we could all benefit from considering the mechanics of the site. It is overall attractive with a well-organized menu that is easy for viewers to navigate. It is laid out well, is eye-catching with a proportionate text-to-image ratio, ensuring that it doesn’t look cluttered or overwhelming. It includes proper footnotes (which can be challenging with some WordPress themes) with plenty of sources for interested audiences to investigate further at their own convenience and a nice “About” tab that gives plenty of information about the creators and the project. The time for us all to begin considering how to best organize our sites is upon us and, for my part, I found it helpful to consider “Driving Through Time.”

Annotated Bibliographies and National Park Service Reports

These past couple days have been spent attempting to gather primary sources. This proved somewhat a challenge as Liz and I both had exceedingly busy schedules and were unable to visit an archive in person. However, archives are certainly not the only place where primary sources can be found! I managed to locate a couple of articles in North Carolina newspapers discussing the Parkway and its influence on Western North Carolina. I also located a report written by the National Park Service to North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges as well as an article discussing the estimated rate of tourism owed to the Parkway and how this has influenced the local economies of communities near the Parkway. A couple of the best sources I found came directly from the National Park Service itself—two different reports showing yearly visitation to the BRP (since 1941) and a monthly breakdown of visitors to the Parkway, including a comparison of the number of visitors to the North Carolina section of the Parkway versus the Virginia portion.

I apologize, but our bibliographies still aren’t formatted quite right. I did the best I could with them, but will do my best to resolve this issue promptly. I admit too that I may have misunderstood whether or not the bibliographies were supposed to be separate or on one document. I have put them on two separate documents and have included links here:

Secondary Source Annotated Bibliography-

Primary Source Annotated Bibliography

This is but a small taste of the sources we are certain we will find as we begin to delve deeper into this story. This handful of primary sources, in addition to the secondary source that we found earlier in the week, are beginning to come together to form a small piece of a much bigger puzzle.