Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’m about halfway through the introduction (I decided to go straight to prose), and am looking for a break from the books. Nobody’s on Facebook on a Saturday night, so I’ve turned to updating my blog. Ha.
People have cautioned against writing the introduction first, but I felt adrift without that literature review under my belt. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Have been finishing Upton, Another City and combing through a 1915 anecdotal history of public accommodations in NYC (W. Harrison Bayles, Old Taverns of New York). That Swem has this book in the stacks warms my soul; that the book is non-circulating chills it again.
I plan to have solid eight- to ten-page outlines of both [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
This week didn’t see much work on Chapter One because I was writing that paper for Antebellum America, which will eventually form the bulk of a later chapter. The paper’s title was “‘Nurseries of intemperance, disorder and profligacy’: The Humane Society’s Early Temperance Movement in New York City.” It partially focuses on contrasts between an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’ve been consumed by papers for other classes for the last few days, but prior to that was making good progress on the thesis. I received the FileMaker database software and have been able to continue compiling newspaper ads. This actually has been a frustrating process–I don’t think I’ve taken the opportunity to complain about [...]