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I have been continuing to look for information to on Henry W. Spradley, the African American veteran buried at the former Lincoln Cemetery. Searching through microfilm at Dickinson College and CCHS, as well as researching further at CCHS, I have … Continue reading →

Jim Washington has been a huge help throughout my research on Lincoln Cemetery. I have met with him multiple time to talk about the history of the cemetery and he has been pivotal in both finding contacts and figuring out … Continue reading →

The first lesson that I came to grasps with while performing my research was to start broad.  At the beginning I was a little to focused on specific information and it proved to make my research at the time very … Continue reading →

Throughout this research project, I learned a few things that would have made my life a whole lot easier if I had been previously aware of.  For one, I found that staying positive about running into dead-ends is key for … Continue reading →

The overarching lesson I learned is that research is never what you think its going to be and that is very time consuming. To be thorough, it takes tedious amounts of searching and reading published secondary sources on your topic … Continue reading →

I have been researching Lincoln Cemetery, the old African American Civil War Veterans burial grounds, and would suggest these three lessons: 1. History Exists Outside the Scholarly Bubble – So often in historical research, we analyze how other historians have … Continue reading →

There are many lessons I learned from this project. One of the first is a very fundamental lesson. The easiest way to be successful in research is to choose a topic that grabs your imagination. I found it difficult to … Continue reading →

My work in the archives was certainly challenging but made easy because the event that I covered, which was the Gettysburg Campaign and Carlisle’s involvement, was a very well and widely written about topic. The biggest lesson I learned was … Continue reading →

Conducting research through a variety of mediums has taught me several valuable lessons that I intend to carry with me into future college classes and careers. First, and foremost, I had to learn to control the urge to jump headfirst … Continue reading →

The first lesson I learned from my Research Project was to begin with scholarly secondary sources.  Scholarly books and articles provided me with a extensive contextual understanding of my topic before I began searching for primary sources.  Since I was … Continue reading →