Throughout this semester, we have each developed our own personal understanding and interpretation of social utopias. In the beginning of the semester, I struggled to form personal opinions and reactions to the readings because I had such limited exper…
Throughout this semester, we have each developed our own personal understanding and interpretation of social utopias. In the beginning of the semester, I struggled to form personal opinions and reactions to the readings because I had such limited exper…
Our understanding of anything that we see, hear, or read is influenced by prior knowledge and the lens through which the experience occurs. Because of this fact of life, the reading of the sources for my seminar paper was also influenced by my recently…
When I came to the conclusion that the editors of The Harbinger decided to limit mentioning the community of Brook Farm to only six times so they could focus on issues that catered to the outside public, it immediately grabbed my attention. The other…
Much of my research focuses on the “Americanization of Fourierism” and Albert Brisbane’s role in this process. This aspect of my research portrays a unique example of how a social thinker created a movement in reaction to his current circumstance…
When writing about really anything at all from history, it is very important to see the topic directly through the eyes of the people who lived at that time and personally witnessed or experienced what it is that you are writing about. Primary sources …
A lot of my research was focused on The Harbinger, and how it sought a connection to the outside community to spread the word about the Associationist beliefs originating from Charles Fourier and about the Brook Farm community. However, I did find a …
I immediately go to my primary sources to quote and explain before my secondary, because they are reflective of the time and very insightful. It’s essential to my paper because I am writing about a newspaper, so having direct quotes and passages …
You might expect that primary sources take precedence over all other sources when writing an historical paper because they give you a direct window to the time and place that you are writing about. It is true that primary sources are very important for…
What are the hierarchies of information in my research? Other than chronologically, how can I organize my research and its claims in a logical way?
When i first tried to form a coherent framework for my research paper I struggled to identify a governin…