Online Resources for Researching a House

1. Washington State Digital Archives
   
   Use the name search on the homepage to find government documents on births, deaths, and census records (1910 and prior). You might even find a naturalization, prison, or military service record in these searches!
2. Family Search
   
   This free version of Ancestry.com can be used to find all sorts of records, but mostly it is useful for finding an index of census records up to 1940.
3. Historic Newspapers
   
   There are several sites that you can use to view historic articles about Spokane. These include Google News Archive, the Library of Congress' Chronicling America, and Legacy Washington's Historic Newspapers Collection.
   
   Use this handy document to figure out which website you need to use to find related articles.
    
4. Spokane High School Yearbooks
   
   Update: You may go directly to this page at the Internet Archive for a better search engine for the yearbooks.
   
   The Spokane Public Library has recently digitized and uploaded yearbooks from around Spokane. These yearbooks are organized by school and year.
   
5. Architectural Guides
   
   There are hundreds of sites that can help you determine your home's architectural style. The Washington State Department of Archaeology and History has a really good resource guide for determining architectural styles in Washington. This about.com article is also full of terrific images for determining your house's style. 

Cemetery Symbolism Resources

Here is the page that Ron found.

Meeting at the Spokane Public Library

On April 23rd, HIST 407 will meet at the Northwest Room of the Spokane Public Library at 2:30 p.m. Bring a pencil and (if you have one) a camera. Prepare for your visit by exploring SPL's Digital Collections.

Free Jared Diamond Tickets

Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winning author, is lecturing at EWU and at the FOX on Thursday, April 23, 2015.  This opportunity is brought to the EWU and Spokane communities by the Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation, as part of their International Speaker Series.

I have attached posters for the two lecture events:  Collapse, Thursday, 1:00 pm, Showalter Auditorium; and, The World Until Yesterday, 7:00 pm, FOX Theater, Spokane. 

We have held back 300 FREE tickets for the EVENING lecture at the FOX – The World Until Yesterday - for EWU STUDENTS with CURRENT ID.  Tickets are available at the Reference Desk at the JFK Library on the Cheney Campus and at the Student Services Window, in Phase I at Riverpoint.  These tickets are for students, so please spread the word in your classes!   

The lecture Thursday afternoon on campus is FREE for all.  Tickets can be purchased by staff and faculty for the evening lecture at www.foxtheaterspokane.com.  They are only $15.

Readings for Tuesday

Esteemed Student:

I have updated the readings schedule, at least for the next two weeks. When you come to class Tuesday you will have a quiz and discussion on the following readings:

• Kyving and Marty, chapters 1 and 2
• Thrush, Native Seattle, Forward, Preface, chapters 1, 2, 3
• Web: Waterlines Project (Don’t read every page, but be able to describe what this project is about and some of its interesting features.)

Welcome to Class, Spring 2015 Edition

I am excited to be teaching my favorite class again this spring. I will be spending this week and weekend sprucing up this website, so you can ignore all the posts below this one!

End Game!

Esteemed Student, I am very excited about your projects! Most of you seem off to a really good start and are coming up with some great stories for your signs. A few of you have some catching up to do, but it is not too late. If you missed class today, make sure to visit or call me ASAP.

As agreed upon today, here is the end game for this class:

• Today we went over the ghost signs in the database and assigned specific signs to specific students to research in a new column I added at the end of the table. Please check and see if you are signed up correctly. 
• Please remember to put your images in Dropbox. Also, please try to date your signs as best you can.
• We will not meet this Thursday or next Tuesday. Use these times for research and writing. In fact the class will meet only one more time: on Thursday, June 6 at 2 p.m. at the Digital Archives.
• The focus of that last class meeting will be to read and critique the stories. So please have all of your stories finished or as near to finished as possible and bring 8 copies of each (double spaced please) to class. This includes your images, with captions.To save printing maybe just 1-2 copies of your images are sufficient.
• How long should each story be? Shoot for 500 words. Some of you have come upon big stories that may require more space, but on no account go over 2000 words.Include a bibliography but do not use footnotes. Each story should also include 4-6 images, with captions.
• After our meeting on the 6th you will have one week to make revisions. Everything is due on Thursday, June 13 at 11:59 p.m. Put your stories as Word docs (no Mac pages files, please) in the new folder created for that purpose. Insert the images into the Word doc, but also save them in the folder. Clearly label everything. 

That is it--we are almost done. I am insanely busy these last weeks just like you, but if you need to see me or talk on the phone I will make it happen. Good luck!