The Class: Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data

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The Class Quantitative Analysis of Historical
Data

• 1. Quantitative methods and statistics
• 2. Historical methods
• 3. Urban History and Milwaukee History as
  examples
• 4. Outline of the Class http//www.uwm.edu/marg
  o/595/595syl2007.htm

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Uses of Quantitative History

• We can study trends in population, in economic
  change, social attitudes, political activities..
• We can draw graphs and create visual displays of
  information.

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Timeline

• 1456 Gutenberg Bible (Invention of movable type)
• 1492 Columbus Discovery of the New World
• ca 1500 Renaissance
• 1517 Protestant Reformation
• 1607 Founding of Virginia (Jamestown Colony)
• 1620-30 Founding of Plymouth Colony and
  Massachusetts Bay

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Timeline Growth of Human Population
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Timeline

• 1456 Gutenberg Bible (Invention of movable type)
• 1492 Columbus Discovery of the New World
• ca 1500 Renaissance
• 1517 Protestant Reformation
• 1607 Founding of Virginia (Jamestown Colony)
• 1620-30 Founding of Plymouth Colony and
  Massachusetts Bay

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Growth of the U.S Population compared to the UK
and France
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Growth in the Size of the U.S. House of
Representatives
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Admitting States to the Union
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Poverty Trends in the U.S.
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Uses of Quantitative History

• We can study of the history of ordinary people
  who dont leave archival records, arent famous
  or powerful
• Thus history using averages and patterning rather
  than study of individual events.
• We will ask how people lived
• 1. What kinds of jobs did they have?
• 2. What were their houses and neighborhoods
  like?
• 3. What was the ethnic composition of the city?

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The City Building Process in Milwaukee

• Roger Simons Study of 3 neighborhoods from 1880
  to 1910.
• The East Side or Eighteenth Ward
• The North Side or 20th and 22d Wards
• The South Side or 14th Ward
• How did the city develop a century ago?
• See Picturing Milwaukee's Neighborhoods

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Seeing Milwaukee
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The East Side, 1895
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The South Side1900-1925
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Kosciuszko Park, ca. 1925
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Milwaukee Duplex, 1930, built in 1900