Wednesday, March 6, 2013
In Class Blog #8
Special collections is a library of old historical things. It has mostly primary sources - some from people that were famous, some form people who were not famous. It has many things relating to local history, Georgia history, and much more. You can find old books, newspapers, photos, scholarly journals, family histories, etc. I could use the primary sources of Special Collections to find old books on guns and how they were used. I could also find out about how guns were made and the types of people that owned guns and how they were acquired. What type of processes did people have to go through to become a gun owner. I could answer questions relating to gun ownership and how that has changed to recent times. It can give me some history into previous gun control laws and what the people of the time thought about them.
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I agree with what you said about what Special Collections are. it is true that there may be famous people as well as normal local people. I think that learning about guns through Special Collections would be an interesting process. You could probably learn a lot about guns, but I am not sure how much you would learn about laws considering the time periods.
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