San Diego Historical Journal Article Analysis

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San Diego has been socially separated from the rest of southern California socially since it became a state. The goal of the paper is examine eight articles from the San Diego Union starting from 1893-1897. The newspapers so far have made it clear that the City was more open and caring to females then the most of the West in the eighteen hundreds. The goal of the paper is to observe how the citizens of San Diego’s thoughts and feeling on the city differed and also were the same. I wish to explain the female empowerment by examine articles, advertisements, and job advertisements in the Union Tribune and the lack of wedding announcements in the paper. In the paper it seems that although men might be mentioned that majority of those who take …show more content…

Specifically Ruth Helds article “San Diego High School, 1882-1982. A Momentous 100 Years: The Story of San Diego High School.” Which delves into the values of education in the 1890’s for me this important in any historical review in women studies because in most societies women are the care givers to children and you can learn a lot about the women by studying what was being given to their children. The articles “The Ramona Castle: Irene Amy Strong 's Home and the Craftsman Movement” by Linda Roth and “LYDIA KNAPP HORTON: A "Liberated" Woman in Early San Diego” by Elizebeth C. MacPHAIL are important at explaining how in the west being a clever could make you well off in the west if you were woman. Lastly “Water Supply Development in San Diego and a Review of Related Outstanding Projects” by Mike Sholders is a great analysis on how the city was being planned to be built in future and how other cities in California felt about the City of San Diego. The book Richard F. Pourade, writes The Glory Years. Vol. 4. Continues this view on the city being built but focus in on the disasters that plagued the city and on the transportation lines built in the city. I do not plan to use these two sources as heavily as the others but they are crucial for giving context to these newspaper