Research Seminar: Schedule

Schedule:

Week One (September 5):

an introductory lecture on the alleged plot to assassinate President Elect Lincoln in February 1861 on his way through Baltimore to Washington and his Inauguration. Illustrations.
a review of the hardware and software requirements: installing and testing software

Week Two(September 12):

using the Firefox browser with Zotero installed, create a bibliography from World Cat of the nearest libraries containing the required reading:
- Brown, George William. Baltimore & the Nineteenth of April, 1861, A Study of the War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 [1887] ( also available on line at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhcbhtml/lhcbhome.html)
- Cuthbert, Norma B. Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861 From Pinkerton Records and Related Papers. San Marino, Calif: Huntington Library, 1949.
- Evitts, William Joseph. A Matter of Allegiances: Maryland from 1850 to 1861. 1971. Excerpt
- Pinkerton, Allan. History and Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln ... from Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C.: On the Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third of February, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One. New York: Rode & Brand, 1907.
- Pinkerton, Alan. The Spy of the Rebellion; Being a True History of the Spy System of theUnited States Army During the Late Rebellion. Revealing Many Secrets of the War Hitherto Not Made Public. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., publishers, 1884.
- Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years. The Library of the presidents. New York: Galahad Books, 1993, 203-206. Excerpt
- Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Maryland From the Earliest Period to the Present Day. Baltimore: J.B. Piet, 1879. Excerpt.

use Zotero to begin taking notes on the interpretation of the plot, concentrating on Cuthbert which is available on line from http:// noting especially any individuals, events, and places in Baltimore connected with the plot about which you would like to know more before you draw your own documented conclusions as to whether or not there was a plot

Week Three (September 19):

Students are on their own in the JHU library, searching for, and taking notes in Zotero on secondary (printed) and web based sources related to the plot.

Week Four (September 26):

discussion of Wikipedia as a resource tool and the researcher as a contributor; visit to the JHU library (students will need to bring their Jcards