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 […]

Introduction The archival texts that will be examined today are titled City Defendants’ Motion Concerning Major Sports at Burke High School and Cape Verde, Post Report. Both texts relate to my life in distant and significant ways. Each gives insight into historical events that took place at the time. City Defendants’ Motion Concerning Major Sports […]

Introduction I learned about the Korean War twice. Once in Korea as a Korean. Once in America as an American. As an AP world history student, I understood that the war was in the context of a much bigger, grander war: The Cold War. It was about politics and ideologies. Communism. Capitalism and democracy. We […]

Introduction to the Chosen Articles My Connection to the Articles As a Vietnamese American in the midst of both the pandemic and a time where Asian-American hate is becoming more prevalent and known, I wanted to more concretely explore my ethnic identity, especially since the idea of being Asian American is such a new, developing […]

Introduction I based my search for my documents on the fact that my father’s family grew up in Attleboro and the Greater Boston area. I focused on race because my grandmother, who is half Korean, and half Nigerian and was adopted here to a family in the United States from Nigeria, has lived her entire […]

Weston I was born in Weston, Florida and lived there until I moved to Boston for college. In a lot of ways, Weston is the epitome of suburban America, with planned developments and landscaping throughout. As a hometown, Weston was great; I got to go to good schools, enjoy the stability provided from two parents […]

Poem 1:   Little Church On The Hill   A lay Preacher, and a farmer Its ups and downs, the church has seen   Five generations, descended in the charter Plenty of souls, at the masters feet   Our parsonage, for the youth of today Storms through the years, mission true   For comfort and […]

Choosing the Archival Documents The two documents that I chose for this project were state records regarding witchcraft in the 1600s. They came from the Massachusetts State Archives as part of the Massachusetts Archives collection. The Massachusetts State Archives houses public records, or information that is recorded by public agencies (including federal and local governments). […]

Introduction of Texts For this project, I chose two texts from the late 1910’s and the 1920’s that relate to immigration from both sides of my family. The first text relates to Irish immigration. This text is titled Ireland’s work for America and Humanity; a plea for freedom and it is a transcribed lecture by […]