Good Moodle Messages from W09 HST202


This is a generic note being sent to enrolled students who have not logged into the HST202 Moodle class website yet. (A couple of you may have just added today, so are also included on this reminder.)

It's now the end of the first week and you have a deadline tomorrow, Friday for two assignments: the Chapter 10 Computer Quiz and the Gun Opinion Poll.

Joe Escobar
Instructor






Don't re-read the chapters. That would be a mistake. Instead, focus on lecture notes, your own notes taken when you read the chapters, map questions, and the study list.

Tell yourself a little story of a historical events which we studied, using the terms from the study list. For example:
The American system, supported by Whigs and conceived by Henry Clay, consisted of infrastructure, tariffs (esp protective tariffs), and a National Bank (the Bank of the United States) whose president Nicolas Biddle lost in his battle against Andrew Jackson, a Jacksonian Democrat who believed the bank was corrupt and helped only the rich. The depression of 1837 resulted when Jackson "killed" the BUS.

There, I think I knocked 10 or more terms off your study list.







Andrew Godard [04:02 PM]: Hello, I've got the information here that I told you about. The book, "Thompson in Africa" is the oldest in my collection. Until recently, my primary interest in this book was simply how old it was, but now that we are learning about this same time period, it has sparked my interest. I have not yet read beyond the first few pages, and I suppose there is likely going to be very little subject matter in common with what we are learning in history class, but on the first few pages at least there is some connection, and I think it is interesting to see the opinions of a man who actually lived in that time. I wish I could bring the book itself in to class so you could see it first hand, but I feel that I must treat this book with great care due to its advanced age of 154 years (to think that this very book itself was held by the hands of men who were present in that time!). Regardless, here is the information on the book. I hope it is enough info.
Book title: "Thompson in Africa", or "An Account of the Missionary Labors, Sufferings, Travels, and Observations, of George Thompson, in Western Africa, at the Mendi Mission."
There are the words "Seven Thousand" printed below that. I'm not sure of the significance of that, but perhaps it could be the number of books printed for this edition.
Below that: "New York: Printed for the Author. 1854"
On the next page: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1851, by George Thompson, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Ohio."
That was all the publishing data I was able to find in the book, but I looked online very quickly, and happily, I was able to easily find some websites you may find helpful. Here is one site that I found:
http://www.stonegateantiques.net/items/113528/item113528store.html
I also found used copies on amazon.com, but not any new copies. Its interesting... Judging by these various copies I've fond, my copy could be worth anywhere from $35 to $125. interesting. I didn't find any online versions, but then I didn't look very hard, and maybe you know more about finding that kind of thing than I do.
Joe Escobar [07:27 PM]: Thanks so much. I think I found a PDF copy of the entire book here:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=rtURAAAAYAAJ&dq=Thompson+in+Africa








Roxanne MacDonald [09:41 PM]: Hi,
If you have time to take a look at this, I was curious if you think this might be an accurate story. CNN posted an article that there was a message regarding the attack on Fort Sumter found in Lincoln’s watch. I found it really interesting that he did not know it was there and the Smithsonian never thought to look in his watch. This is the link for the article.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/10/lincoln.watch/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Joe Escobar [11:03 PM]: This is news to me, and it looks like brand new information. Nothing debunking it on snopes.com