This was one of my favorite holiday stories as a child, and like all folktales there are many variations of it. This is the version I remember from my youth. The Legend…
Hanukkah – The Dreidels
In our A Brief History of Hanukkah blog, we mentioned the Dreidel game, a game associated now with Hanukkah and RoseAnna and I thought it would be fun to write a little…
St. Nicholas’ Day: Who Was Santa Claus?
When I was a little girl, I loved best of all, the magic of Christmastime. It was a strange time of year because my birthday is a week before Christmas. I was…
Written Accounts and Visual Representations as Primary Sources
Academic scholars also consider written accounts, such as diaries, writing on monuments, letters, commonplace books, autobiographies, wills, court documents, treaties, books of law, and merchant logs as primary sources.
A Brief History of Hanukkah
Hanukkah is known as the “Festival of Lights”, “Feast of Dedication” or the “Feast of the Maccabees”. It is a Jewish Holiday that commemorates the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem…
Photographs in Archaeology as a Primary Source
In academia, photographs are not just considered an acceptable primary source; they are an invaluable one. Archaeological research often destroys the item that it uncovers, and the only way these artifacts are…
A Day of Thanksgiving
Last week we had Thanksgiving here in the U.S. While I admit that I’m not always one for the more commercial holidays, I really do love traditions. I am especially fond of…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving Day can mean a lot of things for different people—a time for family, a time to enjoy some really good food, and even the start of the holiday season. It can…
Multiple editions of the same source in research
So our question today is why use multiple editions of the same source in your research and why include it in a bibliography. I wrote this, as I often do, in response…
What are Secondary and Tertiary Sources
While primary sources are essential, secondary and tertiary sources are invaluable to a researcher. While it is true that they are one or more steps removed from the primary sources—the raw data…