In English I am encorperating history into my research. I am doing a family genealogy project by researching some of my ancestors and writing a paper on the historical events that were happening in America during their lifetime. I also wrote about the personal events in their life like, birth, birth place, education, marriage, etc. I got this idea from things I have read in my research from ancestory.com that are like short biographies written by professionals.
I have old letters and deeds that my family has saved that was written to my family members from the late 1800's. I transcribed these and by reading them I learned about that time period from a different point of view, and one that was my ancestors. I learned about how they talked back then and how life was for them.
I am reading the book This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. In our book group we meet weekly and discuss the chapter we have just read and do reflections on our blogs.