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Category Archives: Doing Historical Research
Will the Real Justina Kriegher Please Stand Up?
I’ve been working Louis Thiele’s story for several years. My last post on Thiele sat in my drafts folder for weeks, awaiting a quick polish before its turn at the top of my home page. Or so I thought. The … Continue reading
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Hot Water, Part 2
“They were coming to the end of the town and they thought they were out of trouble. Then there was a big building at the end of the street. Someone threw hot, scalding water on them. The children were all … Continue reading
Soldiers “Trysting” in the Dakota Camp
“…I did not drill to day was sick –feel better to night –nothing of importance –another bans read on dress parade that there should be no more Trysting with the Squaws it made the boys a little mad as there … Continue reading
Josephine’s Experience Becomes a Story
Obituary clipping: Josephine Marsh Huggins Hanthorne c. 1927. Thomas Hughes Papers, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN. Newspaper not identified. ***** Eliza Huggins’s letters, which I transcribed in the previous post in this series about Josephine Huggins’s 1862 captivity story, told … Continue reading
Other Wise
Odobenus rosmarus Daughter, beginning student of Latin: “Mom, does that mean the walrus smells good?” ***** Recently, I heard a scholar explain his inability to supply information with what I think of as the “oral history excuse:” knowledge on that subject … Continue reading
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The ABCs of Reading a Primary Text
In Sweden, according to the dear woman who told me the story, her grandmother was derisively branded “läsare” –a reader —because she read the Bible for herself. In that time and place, the Bible was viewed as the province of the … Continue reading
