{"id":98,"date":"2014-10-13T18:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:22:56","slug":"hist-295-students-do-family-history-at-the-enoch-pratt-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/10\/13\/hist-295-students-do-family-history-at-the-enoch-pratt-library\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 295 Students Do Family History at the Enoch Pratt Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In \u201cThe Historian\u2019s Toolkit,\u201d one of the core classes for history majors, students assemble portfolios about someone in their own family tree. \u00a0Using primary (or exhibit) sources they place their family member in historical context. Since this original research often involves local history, the class visited the Maryland Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library\u2019s Central Branch on October 9. There they explored the City Directories, the library\u2019s historical maps, Criss+Cross Directories, the collection of Maryland books in the stacks, and most importantly, the vertical files, where freshman Tyler Starkweather examined some 1980s news clippings about UB\u2019s new president. Student Audrey Hayes, \u00a0a photojournalist for the US Army Reserves, took these photos of the visit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Pratt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-101\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Pratt1.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt1\" width=\"328\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Enoch Pratt Library is about a 20 minute walk from UB\u2019s campus. On this beautiful October day, we strolled past the Belvedere Hotel, the Hotel Brexton, the Washington Monument, the Maryland Historical Society, the Walters Art Gallery and the Basilica. \u00a0After our tour, some students stopped for coffee while others caught the free circulator back to UB, knowing that this would not be their last visit to this valuable resource so close to our campus.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Pratt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-100\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Pratt2.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt2\" width=\"217\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>A History student looks at a 1980s newspaper article entitled, &#8220;Schmoke Endorsed by Labor Unit,&#8221; written during President Schmoke&#8217;s political career in Baltimore.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cThe Historian\u2019s Toolkit,\u201d one of the core classes for history majors, students assemble portfolios about someone in their own family tree. \u00a0Using primary (or exhibit) sources they place their family member in historical context. Since this original research often involves local history, the class visited the Maryland Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/10\/13\/hist-295-students-do-family-history-at-the-enoch-pratt-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HIST 295 Students Do Family History at the Enoch Pratt Library<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}