Background:  The topic that I have chosen for my archival project relates to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The reason that I chose this event was because it is very personal to me, I am the daughter of two Iranian immigrants, both of whom arrived in the United States at very different times, my mother’s family […]

How Victorian Novels Structured Social Norms Around Love  Introduction: Literature of the past is the closest thing to finding out what daily life, social norms and culture was like. Back before film was around, writing was the main form of preservation. By reading novels from the pre-film era, we get a glimpse of how everyday […]

The archival document that I chose was titled “Yarico to Inkle” describing Yarico’s pain and torture at the hands of Inkle’s betrayal. This poem was published in 1792 in Philadelphia in a magazine called “The American Museum or Universal Magazine” primarily targeted to more wealthy people who could afford magazine subscriptions. It was written by […]

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