Wednesday, February 29, 2012

First Answer: What was the end result of The Pullman Palace Car Strike?

This was the first question I answered in Yahoo! Answers to promote library awareness. I was really worried about getting it right because I'm not used to having to evaluate web sources. Usually, I can turn to scholarly databases and trust that the information is good. In this case I found a lot of '.edu' websites featuring papers written by students. I would consider this a medium-short answer. In the end I offered the user two sources: one to a source of online magazines, and one to an encyclopedia associated with the Chicago Historical Society and the Newberry Library. Most of the information I encountered seemed to indicate the same things, which led me to believe that these sights would be credible.

Here is the link to the question: The Pullman Strike


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