My change to American History Feature Writer requires a lot of new research sources and getting organized.
As I look at all the discussions and contributing writer articles on the site, I find myself very tempted to spend more hours than I have available responding and writing articles on topics related to the contributed articles. I do want to participate in the discussions, but I will try to make my posts count, and may not have something to say in every thread.
I am browsing new shelves at the libraries around here, thinking about a lot of things I learned a few years ago working on my Masters. It will take me some time to get organized enough to jump around, and so for now I am going to stick to a roughly chronolgical plan for my articles. I may jump back and get Christopher Columbus and maybe even the Consquistadors, but right now I am working on the first settlements, and plan to soon have a piece ready on both Jamestown and the lost colony at Roanoke.
I'll try also to cover the Powhatans, and other native American tribes and stories. I should be through precolonial in about a month and a half, and will then move on to Colonial America. I'm enjoying this even more than the Transportation, so far, and I look forward to hearing from everyone in discussions or e-mails.
