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Genealogy and the Analysis of Historical Texts:
Overcoming Student Resistance to the Past
James M. FarrellUniversity of New Hampshire
National Communication Association Convention
Las Vegas, NVNovember 21, 2015
Who Are You?
Where Did You Come From?
Who Are Your Parents?
And Their Parents?
And Their Parents’ Parents?
Where Did They Come From?
When Did They Come To America?
When did they marry?
Where did they live?
Other Documents
More Information
Finding Your Family History
Ancestry.Com
Finding Documents
Download Images
Original Images
familysearch.org
Ellis Island Records
Passenger Records
USS Caronia
Origins
Coming to America
Select an Ancestor
Citizenship
1920 City Directory
Visit the Places
De Valera, Fenway Park in 1919
Irish President Speaks in Boston
Grandpa in the Crowd?
Finding the Text
Contemporary Publications
Videohttp://www.britishpathe.com/video/eamon-de-valera-in-boston
Scholarship
Or, A Different Ancestor
Annie Kelly
Newspapers
More Clues
German Warnings
May 1915
Missing
Contemporary Accounts
Videohttp://www.britishpathe.com/video/lusitania-disaster-1915
Propaganda Value
President Wilson’s Response
Another Speech
Scholarship
Online Resources
FROM GENEALOGY TO RHETORICAL CRITICISM
An Example
Annella Struzziero
1903 Birth Record
Passport Application
Immigration Record, 1922
S. S. Arabic
Death Record
1930 U.S. Census
Sacco and Vanzetti
Images
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsuuuc3t1UM
Newspapers
Speeches
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Trial Arguments
Statements by Defendants
Execution
Sacco & Vanzetti Scholarship
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Scholarship
COMPREHENDING SCHOLARSHIPExercises in Critical Reading
In the News
Murkland Hall
Charles S. Murkland President of the
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1893-1903. Born: May 30,
1856 Lowell,
Massachusetts Died: Nov. 11,
1926
Passport 1917 - 1919
Marriage to Helen Southwick
1900 Census Durham
Murkland’s Genealogy Father: John
Murkland Born in Kilmarnock,
Scotland, 1810
Married, 1833 Immigration, 1848 Citizenship, 1856 Died in Lowell,
1876 Occupation:
Cordwainer
John Murkland’s Death, 1876
Census Records
Interesting Confluence of Dates May 13, 1856
John Murkland becomes a U.S. Citizen in Massachusetts.
May 19-20, 1856 Charles Sumner, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts,
delivers “Crime Against Kansas” speech. May 22, 1856:
Preston Brooks attacks Sen. Charles Sumner May 30, 1856:
Birth of Charles Sumner Murkland, Lowell, Massachusetts
U. S. Senator Charles Sumner
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Crime Against Kansas May 19-20, 1856
Attack by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks
Scholarship
Scholarship
Rhetorical Scholarship
Pfau on Sumner--Abstract
Scholarly Context
Existing Scholarly Views
Pfau’s Thesis
Statement of Purpose & Intent
The Need for Further Work
Textual Analysis as Evidence
Interpretation of the Text
Conclusion
Notes