Class Notes 2/23

Greetings All.

Class Notes for February 23rd, 2009

Agenda 2/23/09

HIST429L

--Reminder of draft due dates: April 6^th

--Research due dates: Turn in all research findings to writing group by March 13^th. Extended deadline can be arranged if needed

Public Relations

--Met with Diamondback last Tuesday

--Story in Process, nothing set in stone yet

--March 4^th, Meeting with President Mote

--Statement of purpose from him

--Need to decide what the group wants to tell; create a presentation

--Follow up invitations from Washington Post, Annapolis Newspaper

Writing Group

--Rough draft of introduction

--When groups turn in their research, they need to provide a short paragraph to explain the information

--Thesis point of the research

Maryland Room

--1850/1860 first time Census uses names

--Need to create spread sheet: how many people living in the districts? How many households? Total population? Whites? Free blacks? Slaves?

--Biographical dictionary of legislator

--Sense of leadership: who they are/what is the Agricultural College about?

Historical Societies

--Went to the Sandy Spring Museum

-- A lot of information on Hallowell and the school in Alexandria

--Autobiography/letters still left to go through

--Would like to explore story of Hallowell and Calvert conflicting with slavery

State Archives

--1861 P.G. assessment records; list of household from maps

--Tax values/property/value of slaves (Calvert owed $6,000 of slaves)

--Economic biography

--Information on surrounding planters

--Need sense of slaveholding in the area; more than 20 planters= planterclass

--Sense of structure of slaveholders

--Runaway slave ads

--Land records

--Goals: find deads to find records of school land

--Wills and inventories

--"Stones and Bones": cementary records

Riversdale

--Splitting up Plummers diary

--Research Calvert's other family

--Provided suggestions on rough draft.

Wednesday: Discuss plan for meeting with President Mot