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Article Evaluation: "Jacksonian Democracy


 * What is the definition of the "common man" from that time period?
 * I noticed that the article never really touches on the fact that it was the landless poor and the mechanics who voted for Jackson and reaped the majority of the benefits. The article just focuses on the fact that it was the population of white men, which is true, however it misses the importance of the shift in democratic ideals with the Jacksonian presidency
 * I'm very surprised there was little information on the Trail of Tears
 * this may be due to the fact that it deserves its own Wikipedia page (which it of course has)
 * The article seems relatively neutral. There are descriptions of each political party that was relevant during the time, and their different political views
 * Citations
 * The first citation I clicked on led me to a page that was unavailable
 * However, many of the other citations worked and brought me to interesting pages
 * Talk Page
 * The talk pages has comments about how the era was "glorified"
 * I can now see this in the fact that the Trail of Tears was not mentioned in a significant manner
 * and the lack of discourse about women's rights

Article Selection:

1) "American Progress"


 * Slightly disappointed by the amount of information provided in this article
 * there is no information or analysis as to why "progress" is female
 * there is very little information on the Native Americans in the painting - a population at the time that was severely affected by the Manifest Destiney and faced many challenges due to westward expansion
 * There should be more links within the article that bring readers to information on the Manifest Destiny specifically, but also the Trail of Tears, gender roles of white expansionists, etc.
 * There are very few references and external links
 * Possible other sources
 * Andrew Wallace, The Long Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians
 * Amy Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire
 * Juliana Barr; Beyond the “Atlantic World”: Early American History as Viewed from the West, OAH Magazine of History, Volume 25, Issue 1, 1 January 2011, Pages 13–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/oahmag/oaq001

2) "Battle of New Orleans"


 * provides background information on both the actions of the British soldiers and the American soldiers before the Battle began
 * how each group arrived at the location of the battle, number of soldiers, etc.
 * There is a significant amount of information regarding the battle
 * I felt as though some of it was unnecessary - the historical significance doesn't necessarily depend on every single move made by each group
 * There are a lot of sources that seem to be strong and reliable
 * Most of the "further reading articles" are restricted to information on the Battle of New Orleans rather than its historical impact

3) "Catharine Sedgwick"


 * The background information seems accurate and is in depth - provides a good understanding of her upbringing and why she wrote about what she wrote about
 * however, I would have liked to see more information about how her views on the autonomy of women influenced much of her writing
 * there was also very little information regarding her inclusion of Native populations within her writing
 * Sedgwick was a big proponent of writing narratives for those who didn't have the opportunity to speak their own
 * Sources
 * Philip Gura, Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
 * Kelley, Mary, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick. “Negotiating a Self: The Autobiography and Journals of Catharine Maria Sedgwick.” The New England Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, 1993, pp. 366–398. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/366002.
 * Weierman, Karen Woods. “Reading and Writing ‘Hope Leslie’: Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Indian ‘Connections.’” The New England Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 3, 2002, pp. 415–443. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1559786.
 * https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs/181/