"Sex, Drunks, and Alleged Insanity: Interpreting Historical Criminal Records" with Morgan Harvey
Channel: Humboldt County Historical Society
Date: 2020-03-19

Presentation by Morgan Harvey - Saturday, September 8, 2018 at the Humboldt County Library (Eureka, CA). Hosted by the Humboldt County Historical Society.

Humboldt County Historical Society research assistant Morgan Harvey describes a collection of Humboldt County Jail register books (1888-1949), showing how data from this collection invites researchers to position local historical narrative within a more clearly defined context. 

Morgan has been transforming the historic criminal records into a keyword-searchable digital resource with support from the Tracy Memorial Trust, a fund of the Humboldt Area Foundation. 

Join us for a demonstration of how data transferred from historic records may be interpreted, and how this data may be applied to larger research questions about race, class, and gender.