Historical Investigation - Journal

30.5.2012
Today I began investigating a topic to investigate. I looked through the syllabus to find a topic of interest and also searched for historical investigation topics in google. I came up with this list: Operation Carthage Cuban Missile Crisis To what extent was RTLM (Radio-Television des Milles Collines) responsible for the incitement to genocide in Rwanda in 1994? Women in Post-World War 2 Britain Something about the Transatlantic Slave Trade (eg. What led to the abolition of it?) Eleanor Roosevelt Margaret Sanger Iraq War (Tony Blair/George Bush) Post-communist Russia Failure of League of Nations 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland South Africa 1890-1910 I hadn't done any real research on any of them so I took them to Mr Fielden to see if there were any there that I shouldn't do, and I ended up choosing from that, Eleanor Roosevelt. I decided to study her impact and significance as a First Lady who had her own life.

31.5.2012
Today I began researching Eleanor Roosevelt on JSTOR and I found relevant articles and printed them off to read and highlight. These included reviews of books of letters from/to Eleanor Roosevelt, reviews of books about Eleanor Roosevelt, and articles by historians such as Beasley, Burke, Winfield, and Leuchtenberg about Eleanor Roosevelt and her significance, or about her husband or the Roosevelts in general which made significant comments on Eleanor. I found that the main ideas about her signficance were about her significance in a

feminist sense, in defining the role of a first lady and in her role in developing the UN Declaration of Human Rights

6.6.2012
Today I began developing a focus question and sub-question regarding these issues. I decided to work on developing these questions and checking for any missed areas next lesson, and to look for more sources as well as make a plan of action regarding the investigation. I also decided to use photostory to make my presentation, as it would allow for the addition of pictures, film, and sound, although I may change this decision

12.6.2012
I did some further research on Eleanor Roosevelt. I found: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eleanor_Roosevelt - a page of quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt. This is a .com page, and may not be completely reliable, but I can look up any I want to use and check they were by Eleanor. They also may not be completely useful. http://www.udhr.org/history/Biographies/bioer.htm - a page on the invlovement of Eleanor Roosevelt in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although this page doesn't have an author, and it is a .org site (and there are very few qualifications needed to get this domain) it has useful information which can be corroborated. http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/ - a website dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt (the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project), listed under titles for easy access, and also from a .edu site. This seems likely to be reliable, and includes a very detailed biography along with various relevant papers which will be very useful. It also has online videos, which I may be able to download, or attach to my presentation. http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=33 - this is a very detailed biography on Eleanor Roosevelt which is organised under subtitles so it will be easier to read, but could be a little unreliable, however it can probably be corroborated against the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project website. I found some very useful websites this lesson, but next lesson I need to find some more information on the perspectives of people in regards to Eleanor. I also need to read and assess the articles I found on JSTOR

14.6.2012
I had a further look at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project website. I found that there was a directory to more sites about Eleanor Roosevelt which I will list here. I also found a page of quotations, and discovered that the website contains a lot of documentation of

correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and other key figures of the times, such as JFK, Martin Luther King Jnr etc., as well as many of her public statements and more private letters. There was also an interesting page about the Project. The project is quite far reaching and is backed by universities and national groups as well as many private sponsors. It seems that the mere existence of this project is some testament to Eleanor's lasting effect. The websites the Project directed me to are as follows. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html - this is a website about America in the 1930's. It seems quite reliable, but probably won't be too useful, as it isn't specific to Eleanor Roosevelt, and there is no search bar, so it is very hard to find anything about her. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/eleanor.html - this is a website about a National Archives Exhibit which sounded as though it might be useful, but it focuses only on Eleanor's resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution due to their refusal to let an African-American singer perform in the Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/digital/roosevelt/ - this website seems quite useful. It contains a sound recording of a speech by Eleanor, of which a section about the UN might be useful, but the main use is in the text. There is a comment from the president of a university about Eleanor, which may be useful in regards to perspective. I didn't get through all the websites so I will need to finish looking through those as well as looking at the JSTOR articles I downloaded next time I work on this. This is the website directory for next lesson: http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/erlinks.cfm

15/6/2012
I continued looking at the websites from the directory on the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project: Eleanor Roosevelt "A Restless Spirit" Study Guide - blocked on the school computers (no idea why!) so I will look at this at home. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Urquhart/urquhart04-con1.html - this website is a transcript of a conversation with a man called Sir Brian Urquhart. There is little on Eleanor Roosevelt although Brian makes a general comment on how people such as Eleanor didn't do what they did for the fame or for the money. http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/TUSKEGEE.HTML - information and primary sources regarding Eleanor's involvement in the Tuskegee Project, which taught black pilots. Probably not particularly useful, although if I do use it, it also has images of letters between Eleanor and a leader of the Tuskegee Airmen

http://www.ervk.org/html/er.html - this is a website dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt. The section of use would be the part about her life, which is quite interactive and would be easy to get through, and also includes pictures and sound files which may be useful. Eleanor Roosevelt: the American Experience - this website is also blocked on the school computers, but the blurb suggests it includes sound files and video clips which may be useful and will be worth a look. http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/workers/index.cfm - this is another website from the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project about Eleanor in relation to Human Rights and Workers Rights which may be useful in regards to my subquestion about her involvement in the development of the declaration of human rights. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/facts.html - has a very detailed bibliography/lists of facts but focuses more on FDR and I also have enough bibliographies really. I got a bit distracted this lesson reading through some things on the last website because it was quite interesting. I still need to find more perspectives, but then I think I can probably start putting together my script. Once I have put the script together, then I will find pictures and videos from sites such as the above to slot into the presentation, and in the first few weeks of next term I will start actually recording and putting together the presentation. At the moment I am thinking that I will use powerpoint for my presentation as this is probably the easiest format to use in order to use various media types, especially since most of the videos/audio can't be downloaded and so if I want to add them, I will probably have to use hyperlinks. Next lesson I will look at the JSTOR articles, and look for perspectives (although the JSTOR articles may include these).

20.6.2012
Today I looked through my options for presentation. At the moment I am favouring Prezi, because it has some awesome features, but I'm not completely sure that I will be able to upload sound onto it. I am looking into it. Also, it is an online resource and therefore, there are more potential technology problems. However it does have some very good visual features and so, if I can upload sound, I'll use Prezi. The fact that it is online means that I will also be able to access it from home, so I can begin my visual component during the holidays, which wouldn't be the case with powerpoint. I think if I can't upload sound, my second choice will be powerpoint, because although I could work on photostory at home, I often find the presentations produced on photostory aren't very good quality, and can often only be viewed as very small pictures, and are often pixellated, and the sound can often be fuzzy.

22.6.2012
I had a further look at the Prezi option, and on a forum on their website, a group of people were discussing the issue with sound. There seem to be two options: convert my sound to

FLV (I think I can use a free online converter for this, but I will need to check at home because it is blocked at school), or use a program which records what is on the screen as well as sound, such as CamStudio, which is free. The latter seems like a better option because it would mean I could eventually convert the file to an mp3, which would be easier to upload etc.

30.6.2012
Today I was investigating perspectives on whether Eleanor Roosevelt was a significant feminist or not, and I found some good information, with names of historians on the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project website. The web address was http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/lesson-plans/notes-er-and-womensmovement.cfm and the useful paragraph from the website was as follows: Historians often debate whether or not ER should be called a feminist. Those who say she was not a feminist base their arguments on ERs opposition to the National Womens Party and the Equal Rights Amendment. (she thought it would undercut the legislative gains they had devoted their lives to achieving). They, like Lois Scharf, argue that because ER did not view social problems through the unique lens of gender, discover and define the discriminatory features of society, examine the underlying causes for female inferiority and concentrate on their alleviation, that the answer to this question is a qualified no (Lois Scharf, ER and Feminism in Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt). Others, like Allida Black and Blanche Cook, disagree. They say her firm belief in womens equality and her forty-year campaign to advance women politically, economically, and socially is proof of ERs commitment to gender equality. While they agree that ER opposed the Equal Rights Amendment throughout the twenties, thirties and forties, they point to ER dropping her opposition in the late fifties. To them, ER is a feminist because their definition of feminism is broader than supporting the ERA and dedication to gender-based analysis.1 From information on this page I put together the following research: Perspectives - Quotes In her oral history memoir, Frances Perkins said of ER, She was a very easy woman to know. She was very much a womans woman.2 Historians often debate whether or not ER should be called a feminist. Those who say she was not a feminist base their arguments on ERs opposition to the National Womens
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http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/lesson-plans/notes-er-and-womensmovement.cfm
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Eleanor Roosevelt and Women in the New Deal: A Network of Friends, Frances M. Seeber http://www.jstor.org.rp.nla.gov.au/stable/20700155?seq=7&Search=yes&searchText=schar f&searchText=roosevelt&searchText=lois&searchText=eleanor&list=hide&searchUri=%2Fact ion%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dlois%2Bscharf%2Beleanor%2Broosevelt%26gw%3Djtx% 26acc%3Don%26prq%3Dlois%2Bscharf%26Search%3DSearch%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&p revSearch=&item=4&ttl=167&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null

Party and the Equal Rights Amendment. (she thought it would undercut the legislative gains they had devoted their lives to achieving). They, like Lois Scharf, argue that because ER did not view social problems through the unique lens of gender, discover and define the discriminatory features of society, examine the underlying causes for female inferiority and concentrate on their alleviation, that the answer to this question is a qualified no (Lois Scharf, ER and Feminism in Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt). Others, like Allida Black and Blanche Cook, disagree. They say her firm belief in womens equality and her forty-year campaign to advance women politically, economically, and socially is proof of ERs commitment to gender equality. While they agree that ER opposed the Equal Rights Amendment throughout the twenties, thirties and forties, they point to ER dropping her opposition in the late fifties. To them, ER is a feminist because their definition of feminism is broader than supporting the ERA and dedication to gender-based analysis.3 ER: I became more of a feminist than I ever imagined.4 Mary Anderson, Chief of the Womens Bureau, She always knew what we were doing and understood what our problems were. I felt that working women everywhere could turn to her for help and support, and through her could get the kind of sympathetic interest from the President that would be very useful. Women in Washington knew they had a friend in the White House.5 Perspectives - Historians Blanche Wiesen Cook Allida Black Lois Scharf Contemporary feminist friends and supporters Frances Perkins Molly Dewson Ellen Woodward Mary Anderson Hilda W. Smith Hollie Flanagan

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/lesson-plans/notes-er-and-womensmovement.cfm
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http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/lesson-plans/notes-er-and-womensmovement.cfm
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Eleanor Roosevelt and Women in the New Deal: A Network of Friends, Frances M. Seeber http://www.jstor.org.rp.nla.gov.au/stable/20700155?seq=7&Search=yes&searchText=schar f&searchText=roosevelt&searchText=lois&searchText=eleanor&list=hide&searchUri=%2Fact ion%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dlois%2Bscharf%2Beleanor%2Broosevelt%26gw%3Djtx% 26acc%3Don%26prq%3Dlois%2Bscharf%26Search%3DSearch%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&p revSearch=&item=4&ttl=167&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null

Other Information Eleanor Roosevelt wrote My Day columns (often criticised as trivial) Democratic Digest - newspaper published by the Womens Division of the Democratic National Committee. Eleanor had a column (Ask Mrs. Roosevelt) Feminist Groups she was involved in International Congress of Working Women Womens International League of Peace and Freedom League of Women Voters Womens Trade Union League Womens Division of the New York Democratic Party I didnt add all the things I found from the historians in here, the rest of the information will be included in my source analysis.

02.7.2012
Today I began analysis of sources which I found on JSTOR in regards to information I might use, usefulness and reliability Source 1 Public Orientation to Roosevelt by Filmore H. Sanford Source: The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1951), pp. 189-216, found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/2746164, accessed 30/05/2012 19:37 This is a study into opinions about FDR Found that Eleanor Roosevelt received nomination for greatness from 1.3% of the population (only woman to have done so of 314 ppl nominated for greatness, only 37 were women) Reliability and Usefulness: In using this, we must consider how the timing and location affected results and whether the sample size was large enough the questions were administered June 1949 to 963 ppl in Philadelphia. In regards to the reliability of the source, it probably isnt completely reliable as 963 ppl isnt that many, and a sample from Philadelphia wont necessarily represent the whole of the American public. In regards to my investigation, the date also raises issues, as it was at a time when Eleanor was prominent in the media, and doesnt say anything about her lasting effect. Although the reliability isnt amazing, I will probably still use the source, as it does show generally that she was the most well-known woman (who would be nominated for greatness) of her time and before. Source 2 Nothing to Fear: Notes on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt by Joan M. Erikson Source: Paedalus, Vol. 93, No. 2, The Women in America (Spring 1964), pp. 781-801, found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/20026855, accessed 30/05/2012 04:11 Ridicule from press on her energy (busybody) and looks examples in source Erikson says she is unquestionably effective as a voice urgently enlisting the responsible participation of women in public affairs and in the support of the various humanitarian causes she promoted, and she was a successful ambassadress to the

countries that she visited. And that she became, the most outstanding wife of a President that this country has produced. Eleanor had two main aims: equality and peace Article describes development of Eleanor, influences on her etc. Reliability and Usefulness: This is an article from JSTOR which has been published in Daedalus, which is a reliable academic journal published by MIT Press on the behalf of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the articles published in this are by invitation only. This makes the source very reliable and some of the information in it will be useful to me

Source 3 Woman of the Century: Eleanor Roosevelts Biographer Assesses the Legacy of a First Lady Who Sought Justice for All by Blanche Wiesen Cook Source: The Womens Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 10/11 (Jul. 2000), pp. 22-23, found http://jstor.org/stable/4023479, accessed 30/05/2012 04:08 Eleanor believed politics requires activism, individual dedication, progressive movements for change and betterment. This, and her dedication of her goal of, in Cooks mind, achieving dignity and decency for all, are her greatest legacies, and are ideas which, in Cooks view, we would do well to reflect on and use today. ER remains the only First Lady to leap for her pen to disagree with her husband. She campaigned publicly for the causes she believed in, frequently with his encouragement. He told her that if she could warm up an issue he would run with it. In 1938, she wrote an entire book, The Troubled World, which criticized her husbands international policies point by point. Reliability and Usefulness: This source seems quite useful as it appears to be focusing on similar areas as I am, and provides an historians p erspective on her legacy. It also seems quite reliable, being a scholarly article found on JSTOR, and as Cook is a distinguished and well-known professor of history, however it is written for a womens paper which might be slightly feminist (in as much as it might not publish a paper against Eleanor). Still that is speculation, and it seems very reliable. Source 4 Public Schools in Hard Times: Letters from Georgia Educators and Students to Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, 1933-1940 by Robert Cohen Source: The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 1 (SPRING 1998), pp. 121-149, found on http://jstor.org/stable/40583699, accessed 30/05/2012 04:10 Mrs. Roosevelt had sought to redefine the role of First Lady, dispensing with its old elite social hostess image in favour of a new social activism. Eleanor Roosevelt received far more mail than predecessors, coming disproportionately from working class and poor Americans. Received 300 000 pieces of mail in her first year. Although this shows she gained the trust of poorer Americans, she obviously wasnt able to do anything about this amount of requests for specific help, although she and her secretaries sometimes referred the writers to other groups. Reliability and Usefulness: It is probably reliable for the small amount of information I might use from it although Robert Cohen isnt very well known (he doesnt come up in Google). It is useful only for the small details above.

Source 5 Eleanor Roosevelt, October 11, 1884-November 7, 1962 She Made a Difference by Fran Burke Source: Public Administration Review, Vol. 44, No. 5 (Sep-Oct 1984), pp. 365-372, found on http://jstor.org/stable/975987, accessed 30/05/2012 04:09 Joseph Lash in Eleanor and Franklin states that from that time (at 35, when ER & family moved back to NY from Washington D.C.) Eleanor, would never again be content with purely private satisfactions, and for the rest of her life she would look at the injustices of the world, feel pity for the human condition, and ask what she could do about it. Joseph Lash Franklin & Eleanors husband-wife relationship depended on how well she buried her tracks and how persuasively she disavowed that she had any influence. Eleanor aiming to bring government closer to the people and her belief that America must develop the human side of government Disagrees with Cohen about Eleanors response to mail; suggests she helped where she could and had larger personal involvement (is backed by gwu I think in that it says she wrote heaps of letters every day) Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley Eleanor Roosevelt had a solid sense of politics. also estimated that throughout the years, the presidents wife was responsible for the appointment of over 4000 women in fourth-class post offices (gives a source for this) Rexford Tugwell Eleanor operated as the extension of the Presidents outlook. (gives a source for this) Franklin and Eleanor referenced each other as a way of getting others to act (examples in source) Franklin depended on her reporting and activities. Became what Grace Tully termed, the bosss preferred listening post Eleanor termed herself the agitator Her voice derived its influence from the authority vested in her through trust and belief, rather than through vested office. Her influence therefore continued even after FDRs death. (The Institute for Research in History, Eleanor Roosevelt, Woman of the Century, written for the Centennial of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1984) John Kenneth Galbraith her achievements lie in three main areas civil rights, womens movement, and human rights and peace Civil Rights brought black and white children together at parties at White House, flew with a black aviator so they started to be deployed, resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution over the Marian Anderson exclusion, toured black colleges, visited black churches, and contributed her name, money and presence to black causes. Chicago Defender 1939 She has stood like the Rock of Gibralter against pernicious encroachments on the rights of helpless minorities. (provides source) Eleanors lifetime of achievements in all areas strengthened the social, economic and political position of women. 1939 Times the worlds foremost female political force her unequaled influence in the world rests upon thousands of small activities.

Human beings do not stride from peak to peak, they climb up the side of the mountain. The Troubled World US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1984 Eleanor Roosevelt will, forever, be remembered as the dynamic First Lady and United Nations delegate who championed the cause of the underprivileged and the oppressed. She redefined the role of the American political wife, and, in her own right, had an enduring influence in domestic and international politics. ER My main object is a better life for all. Reliability and Usefulness obviously, from the large amount of possibly useful details I have picked out from this, this source is VERY useful, as it also gives a whole heap of information from other people and sources. It is also reliable, being written by a scholar, and published in a reliable source.

05/7/2012
I continued reading and analyzing the JSTOR sources Source 6 Eleanor Roosevelts Vision of Journalism: A Communications Medium for Women by Maurine Beasley Source: Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1, The Media and the Presidency (Winter, 1986), pp 66-75, found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/27550311, accessed 30/05/2012 18:58 Used three avenues: press conferences, a daily newspaper column, and magazine articles. Press Conferences: Held 348 press conferences during her 12 years as First Lady. Only women allowed in. o Said they would be non-political but often used them for political purposes. Eg. 1933 - endorsed proposed constitutional amendment to outlaw child labour, 1938 - came out in favour of legislation to regulate wages and hours, 1939 - argued unsuccessfully for passage of the Wagner bill to admit 10 000 German refugee children into US (provides sources) Other topics include womens rights, social services, education, concern for young people, efforts to mobilise civilians for WWII o making the conferences a kind of nucleus to give women more pride in their sex. People who appeared included Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, distinguished historian Mary Beard, former official of the League of Nations Dame Rachel Crowdy, chief of the federal Bureau of Home Economics Dr. Louise Stanley, and Madame Chiang Kai-chek of China. As the basis of news stories, they served as role models for other women. o Ruby A. Black (married - unusual) was hired by the United Press, which had previously refused to employ women. Black - jobs to jobless newspaperwomen recognition to those who had been shoved off in a corner. o By insisting on a role independent of her husbands (director of son James insurance company, earned money from My Day) she made the press

conference a means of widening the aspirations of women in general. Set a precedent for First Ladies Newspaper Columns: My Day 1936-1962. By 1938 appeared in 62 newspapers with total circulation 4,034,552 (provides source). Touched on important topics, names of important women (eg. Molly Dewson, Mary Anderson, Hilda W. Smith, Hollie Flanagan) thus became a kind of newsletter for women in politics. Also emphasised domestic life - connect through anecdotes. Appeared 6 days a week, often dictated while travelling, in small hotel rooms etc., included letters from readers. 1939, Arthur Krock (New York Times) - required political reading. Urged women to work in WWII (suggested a national service act). After FDRs death, column continued until ER died, but became more outspoken Magazine Articles: Monthly column in Womans Home Companion 1933-35, The right to work seems to me as vital a part of our freedom as any right which we may have. (married women), during 12 years in White House, she published more than 60 articles in magazines with national circulations Reliability and Usefulness: This is very reliable as it is published in a publication of Presidential Studies, in an issue about The Media and the Presidency, and has been found on JSTOR. It is also useful as the media is a big part of Eleanors role as First Lady. However there is nothing revolutionary, or that that I couldnt fairly easily find elsewhere.

Source 7 The Legacy of FDR by William E. Leuchtenburg Source: The Wilson Quarterly (1976-), Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring 1982), pp. 77-93, found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/40256266, accessed 30/05/2012 04:09 Truman (FDRs successor) found it difficult to assume his role. 5 months after taking office he was writing to Eleanor, I never think of anyone as the president, but Mr Roosevelt. He began his presidency, according to one account, by regularly phoning his predecessors wife to find out what he wou ld have done about this or that problem. The President consulted Mrs Roosevelt as he might have consulted a medium. Reliability and Usefulness: the above is the only real thing of use to me, and it quotes without providing sources for them, which is odd. The reliability of the whole article seems quite high, but the reliability of the part I want to use might not be due to the fact that the information seems a little unusual, and there is no source for it. I will probably still use this, citing Leuchtenburg as the source, but I will see if I can check some of the information with the web first.

06/7/2012
I continued reading and analysing the JSTOR sources Source 8 Anna Eleanor Roosevelts White House Legacy: The Public First Lady by Betty Houchin Winfield

Source: Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, To Form a More Perfect Union (SPRING 1988), pp. 331-345, found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/40574470, accessed 30/05/2012 18:58 Upon ERs death, NY Times had headlines, She Won Acclaim in Her Own Right and She Was The Symbol of The New Role Women Were to Play in the World Wrote articles for magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Womans Home Companion, Ladies Home Journal, Readers Digest, McCalls, Colliers, and The Nation Published a dozen books, during seven of her years as First Lady she had a radio series on diverse topics NY Times when covering Jan 1933 Chicago League of Women Voters speech, During the dinner she chatted animatedly, as if a trip from New York by plane and train, a dinner, a lecture and two receptions in one day were not much of a strain. (provides source) Visiting Northern Idaho in 1938, lead story of the Spokane Spokesman Mrs. Roosevelt, first lady of the land, in her visit to Idaho today enjoyed a typical Roosevelt day. She flew 350 miles by plane, motored 180 miles between Spokane and Moscow, talked to 50 reporters, informally, addressed a capacity audience of 5500 in the Memorial Gymnasium and then hopped a sleeper plane at Salt Lake City to fly to Warm Springs, GA where she expects to join President Roosevelt Sunday evening. (provides source) - if I use, add she was probably writing columns in there too The Times, The very best helpers of a President are those who do all they can for him, but keep still about it. (provides source) That she was a first lady was just part of her life. By 1939, she had greater popularity in the public opinion polls than did her husband. 67% approved of her conduct as first lady in contrast to 58% who approved of her husbands performance. Media sociologist Gladys Engel Lang calls fame by extension satellite status Most first ladies fit this. ER fits what Lang calls sponsored status (gain attention through prominent man then earn their own way) A graph of NY Times articles for each twentieth century first ladys complete year try and get for visual aide Times - They must be in the middle foreground but never in the limelight. (provides source) Eleanor was more public. Eg. Florence Harding in 1921 had a man released from the prison on Blackwell Island (unexpected) and paid for his passage to France to see his ailing mother but the article was buried on the last page of the NY Times (provides source) Taught and owned NY private girls school Todhunter Why cant she stay in her place like Grace Coolidge? Why does she have to go sticking her nose into everything? Eleanor everywhere You are really Americas first nuisance. Times - since Eleanor Roosevelt, Presidents wives have been expected to show some interest in good works. She created an expectation that first ladies would be public, more public than they ever had been.

Helen Jackson (first lady) - Eleanor Roosevelt changed forever the role of political wives in the United States. We hold press conferences, make speeches, appear on television, assist in fundraising and participate in all aspects of campaigning and the official life. (provides source) When Bess Truman didnt have regular press conferences, the NY Times had two articles about it. she played a large part in making the first lady visible, a modern feminine ideal. Reliability and usefulness: this article seems fairly reliable, being from the Presidential Studies Quarterly, however this may make it slightly biased towards Eleanor, not wanting to display any president or his wife badly. It is fairly useful, although by now I have plenty of information on Eleanors publicity. Still, this means I have more to pick and choose from.

Source 9 Midlife Crisis. Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 2:1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Review by Leila Rupp Source: The Womens Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Oct. 1999, pp. 7 -8, found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/4023359, accessed 30/05/2012 18:59 1938 - defied Eugene Bull Connor in Birmingham, Alabama at the biracial Southern Conference on Human Welfare by carrying around a folding chair so she could sit between the segregated black and white sections One mystifying thing - Eleanor didnt speak out against German persecution of the Jews Source 10 The Modern First Lady and Public Policy: From Edith Wilson through Hillary Rodham Clinton by Allida M. Black Source: OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 15, No. 3, First Ladies (Spring, 2001), pp. 15-20, found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163436, accessed 1/7/2012 03:35 Eleanor Roosevelt transformed the role of First Lady from silent partner and grand hostess to journalist, advocate, housemother, and lobbyist. Played a big role in the creation of National Youth Administration, the Federal One Programs, and the Subsistence Homestead Administration. She lost battles to make the Social Security Act and the Economy Act more comprehensive and to make lynching a federal crime. Main achievement was publicity. Able to be so political because she downplayed her influence, maintained friendships with reporters covering her, balanced politics and entertaining, appealed directly to public for opinions and support. With help of aides Malvina Thompson and Edith Helm she redesigned the way mail was handled, thus revolutionising the publics access to the White House. One cartoonist prays please, Lord, make Eleanor tired! and Roosevelt critics harp who elected her anyway? Eleanor Roosevelt cast a long shadow over the women who succeeded her.

08.7.2012
Today I googled Eleanor because I was bored and I found a page on www.biography.com about Eleanor. This page, being a .com page, and not being a scholarly website, probably isnt altogether reliable, however it does have links to a few videos about Eleanor. I probably wont use most of the sound, however I thought that I could use some of the video, using the software to record what is on the screen and have my voice over this. There is also more video material on you tube. So I will probably add sections of video to my presentation. The websites for the two useful websites from www.biography.com are http://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-roosevelt-9463366/videos/eleanor-roosevelt-afull-schedule-2087074093 and http://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-roosevelt9463366/videos/eleanor-roosevelt-mini-bio-2204985525

10.7.2012
Today I read three books I had borrowed which were about FDR and the Roosevelts in general but which I thought might have something useful on Eleanor Book 1 A Pictorial History of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Nigel Blundell I wont bother recording details for a bibliography because there were so few pictures on Eleanor and so little information that I dont think I will bother using this, as the few photos are ones which I could probably find online, or at least that Im not s ure are worth the trouble of scanning them. Book 2 The Roosevelt File by Michael Rawcliffe I dont even know why I got this one out of the library because surely I would have looked at the contents? I doubt this mentions Eleanors name more than to briefl y mention he married her. Book 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt by Jeffrey H. Hacker This does have some information on Eleanor but nothing particularly useful or that I havent found in other places. It is also hard to find, amidst information on FDR.

12.7.2012
I realised that although I found websites earlier and wrote little blurbs about what they were about, I hadnt picked out information the way I did from the JSTOR sources so I went back to the most promising of the websites Website 1 The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project http://www.gwu.edu From here I saved a lot of pictures which will be useful visual aides, and also found this paragraph

Eleanor Roosevelt left a voluminous written legacy. She wrote seventeen political books (although only one remains in print), more than eight thousand columns, over four hundred articles, an average of 150 letters a day, and countless memoranda and speeches--all without a ghost writer. Her State Department human rights file fills 198 archival boxes. The records of her work as an American delegate to the United Nations, her frequent radio and television commentaries, and the documentation of the positions she advocated are scattered around the world.

Website 2 National Archives and Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/eleanor.html In a dramatic and celebrated act of conscience, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) when it barred the world-renowned singer Marian Anderson, an African American, from performing at its Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. Following this well-publicized controversy, the federal government invited Anderson to sing at a public recital on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, some 75,000 people came to hear the free recital. The incident put both the artist and the issue of racial discrimination in the national spotlight. "I regret exceedingly that Washington is to be deprived of hearing Marian Anderson, a great artist." - Eleanor Roosevelt, telegram to treasurer of Marian Anderson Citizens Committee, reported in the New York Times, February 27, 1939 In her autobiography, Anderson recalled the historic concert: "All I knew then was the overwhelming impact of that vast multitude . . . I had a feeling that a great wave of good will poured out from these people." I also saved copies of a picture of Eleanors letter of resignation and a p hotograph of the concert Website 3 Eleanor Roosevelt Centre at Val-Kill http://www.ervk.org/html/er.html I was going to save some pictures from here, but unfortunately the pictures cant be saved, which is a shame because there were a lot of them. I will probably use some of the other websites to help write the small biography to begin, and if I need to confirm any details, which I dont think I will because the information from the JSTOR sources + what I know is quite comprehensive. They dont really include much primary information so apart from for that they probably wont be too useful

14.7.2012
I have a basic plan for my speech: 1. Introduction and Brief Biography 2. Impact at the time a. Achievements in civil rights declaration of human rights, womens rights (use what contemporaries thought of her etc.) also criticism (too contemporary for her time? - no, she was what was needed)

b. How she did this media 3. Lasting Legacy a. Role of first lady (lead into this from 2b) 4. Conclusions a. Was she a feminist? use Lois Scharf b. Was she significant in her time and did she have a lasting legacy? c. (YES TO BOTH) I am planning to print off a copy of this journal with all the information from the various places on it and colour code information in regards to which of the topics it falls under, and then put a cross or a tick next to them in the same colour to indicate whether they are praise or criticism of Eleanor. I will then select and write from there, as, with the detail I have written, I doubt that will take very long.

17.7.2012
I have written a basic draft but will need to do a little editing and also need to indicate what the visual will be throughout, then I need to create my prezi and use the software which records what is on screen to record that and the videos and put a voice-over over them.