Roy Rosenzweig’s Scavenger Hunt

Digital History Assignment 2 for September 19, 2007

1. A recording of Leon Trotsky speaking in English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7r4zpUEpog

2. 1915 suffrage poem with the line: When all the women wanted it.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/ADMsuffrage.html

3. A letter from George Washington to Timothy Pickering in which Washington complains about "certain forged letters" intended to wound his character and "deceive the people."
http://books.google.ca/books?id=OLiLJsfyrMoC&pg=PA420&dq=certain+forged+letters+intended+to+wound+his+character+and+%22deceive+the+people.%22

4. An 18th century speech by Willie Lynch telling Virginia slave owners how to keep slaves in line.
http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/wil.html

5. An online debate over whether the 1962 Cuban crisis would have been different if Kruschev had sent a fair sized contingent of Russian troops instead of missiles.
I could not find this one. :(

6. A complete version of "Annual Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, 1993" in The Economic History Review by Roger Middleton and Peter Wardley (one of first publications for historians to talk about Internet).
Found in JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org.proxy2.lib.uwo.ca:2048/view/00130117/di011843/01p01475/0?currentResult=00130117%2bdi011843%2b01p01475%2b0%2cFFFFFFFF&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FAdvancedResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26q0%3DAnnual%2BReview%2Bof%2BInformation%2BTechnology%2BDevelopments%2Bfor%2BEconomic%2Band%2BSocial%2BHistorians%26f0%3D%26c0%3DAND%26q1%3DEconomic%2BHistory%2BReview%26f1%3D%26c1%3DAND%26wc%3Don%26sd%3D1993%26ed%3D1993%26la%3D

7. Four syllabi for courses that include Hamlet on the Holodeck by Janet Murray.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/sts145/html/Syllabus2003.htm
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/interpret.html
http://www.units.muohio.edu/englishtech/ENG49502/ENG495syll02.htm
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/6210_syl.html

8. The home page for the Center for History & New Media as it looked in 1998.
I am not sure if this one is right…
http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php

After using the Internet Archives' really interesting search tool, the 'Wayback Machine', I would like to revise my answer to:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980419060247/http://chnm.gmu.edu/

The only drawback to this tool is that you have to know the URL of the site you are looking for. So, if it ever changed its URL address, you can not search by subject or title, and it would make finding the old site very difficult.

9. A picture of Janet Murray together with the Sims.
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://homepage.mac.com/voyager/images/janetmurray.jpg&imgrefurl=http://voyager.blogs.com/voyeurism/educational_technology/index.html&h=489&w=652&sz=274&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=3lUZ0emIuw2WAM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=138&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djanet%2Bmurray%2Bsims%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

I actually really enjoyed this exercise. It let me realise that I do have some search skills, while also showing me that there is much, much more for me to learn. I know that I will never be able to understand everything about the Internet or computers (I never actually figured out exactly what a 'SIMS' was), but I am feeling better every day about the elastic nature of my brain to take in, and maybe even understand, something of what we are doing in realtion to my age-old enemy, the computer.