Firearms Historian - The Quest Begins..........

Good for you. The closest I ever came to doing something like this was swearing out an affidavit for a Motion to Dismiss describing how the FEG 9mm pistol made in Hungary was a copy of respected Browning High Power and that the safety features derived from the Browning High Power worked in the subject FEG pistol of the case. I must have done something right as we got the client dismissed out of the case long before the trial.
 
Good luck to you, RM! 12 credits is a full time student's load, but it's doable if working full time. Just need discipline and focus.
 
Thank you, OP and best wishes as you achieve this milestone. That is both a very interesting and intellectually rewarding pursuit; as well as, a service to the collecting community.
 
I have decided that, should I get my master’s degree in public history, I shall identify myself as a Materiel Culture Historian.

My Material Culture instructor thought that was hilarious, but I think I’m going to go with it.

(Materiel (with an ‘e’) is defined as military goods/equipment…you know….guns!)

Anyway, I have an assignment due the 18th:

“#1 Objects & Gender. (Due Sept.18)
Objects often become associated with a specific gender. This alignment can change over time. An example of this is the blue jean. In the 19th century these trousers were associated with men who did manual labor. By the 1930s some women who did manual labor, usually on the family farm, also wore them but they were still strongly associated with working men. By the 1950s teenagers of both sexes wore them for casual attire. Today, they are gender as well as class neutral.
For this project, chose an object (or class of objects) that you feel has changed its gender association at least once over time. Describe the object, its history, and how it came to be identified with a specific gender. Then explain how and why that changed. You should consider how our understanding of gender in the 21st century has influenced the dynamics of objects and gender association.”

So I’m thinking the S&W M36/60 Ladysmith would be great example and would have the bonus of being an object that switched genders twice; went from M36 to Ladysmith and then the Ladysmith reverted back to a modifed M36 when too many guys started liking the Ladysmith but didn’t want to get razzed for the name.

I’m waiting to hear back from the instructor on how deep she wants us to go into this thing. It’s supposed to be 6-8 pages long but, as the son of a lawyer, I have an unintentional tendency of submitting 20 page papers when I could have gotten by with a 10 pager.

Anyone have any LAdySmith M36/60 advertising featuring women or advertising featurning the -de-gendered version made later, I’d love to see it.

[email protected]

Best,
RM Vivas
 
I've always liked the Ladysmith 3913. It's visually appealing, fits my hand well, and I could swear that it has a better trigger than a regular 3913--though I think someone went over the parts list and found it the same as the regular 3913.

I also like the discontinued Ladysmith version of the model 65.
 
RM Vivas said:
So I’m thinking the S&W M36/60 Ladysmith would be great example and would have the bonus of being an object that switched genders twice; went from M36 to Ladysmith and then the Ladysmith reverted back to a modifed M36 when too many guys started liking the Ladysmith but didn’t want to get razzed for the name.
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The Chiefs Special Models 36 and 60 did not change to Lady Smith and back to a non-Lady Smith version. S&W produced both concurrently, the Lady Smith being a rather limited run in comparison to the total number of Chiefs.
 
RM Vivas said:
I have decided that, should I get my master’s degree in public history, I shall identify myself as a Materiel Culture Historian.

My Material Culture instructor thought that was hilarious, but I think I’m going to go with it.

(Materiel (with an ‘e’) is defined as military goods/equipment…you know….guns!)

Anyway, I have an assignment due the 18th:

“#1 Objects & Gender. (Due Sept.18)
Objects often become associated with a specific gender. This alignment can change over time. An example of this is the blue jean. In the 19th century these trousers were associated with men who did manual labor. By the 1930s some women who did manual labor, usually on the family farm, also wore them but they were still strongly associated with working men. By the 1950s teenagers of both sexes wore them for casual attire. Today, they are gender as well as class neutral.
For this project, chose an object (or class of objects) that you feel has changed its gender association at least once over time. Describe the object, its history, and how it came to be identified with a specific gender. Then explain how and why that changed. You should consider how our understanding of gender in the 21st century has influenced the dynamics of objects and gender association.”

So I’m thinking the S&W M36/60 Ladysmith would be great example and would have the bonus of being an object that switched genders twice; went from M36 to Ladysmith and then the Ladysmith reverted back to a modifed M36 when too many guys started liking the Ladysmith but didn’t want to get razzed for the name.

I’m waiting to hear back from the instructor on how deep she wants us to go into this thing. It’s supposed to be 6-8 pages long but, as the son of a lawyer, I have an unintentional tendency of submitting 20 page papers when I could have gotten by with a 10 pager.

Anyone have any LAdySmith M36/60 advertising featuring women or advertising featurning the -de-gendered version made later, I’d love to see it.

[email protected]

Best,
RM Vivas
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And there is the original Ladysmith, and the mysterious SN 709 Ladysmith which may or may not have been carried by Adolph Hitler during his rise to power.
 
Firearms Historian

Robert,

There are some excellent recommendations in these posts.

I may be wrong but I would also think that your methodology and methods would be important. What works best, and what doesn’t work as well. Thinking along those lines, I think that someone in the S and W Collectors Association could make your work less onerous, especially Mr Jinks and his assistants. Someone in the Smith and Wesson Historical Foundation might also provide excellent recommendations. Going further I wonder if someone at the Marine Corps Museum who has done similar research work could provide some suggestions? That is a world class operation. Different goals with similar methodology.

I understand your challenges. I was in the Ph D program at Arizona State University

Good luck in your professional and academic work!

Semper Fidelis,

Bill
 
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This brings my post-graduate GPA to 3.85.

I should mention that all this takes place at SUNY-Albany in the capital city of The Peoples Democratic Republic of New York (state motto “An Indictment Is Not A Conviction!”).

I need 300 hours of internship and I put in for an internship as a Firearms Record Specialist at the Buffalo Bill/Cody Firearms Museum and I really thought I’d get it. I’ve spent the past many years dealing with firearms records, you’d think that experience would count for something.

Unfortunately for me, they went with someone else and a consequence of my pinning my hopes on that one internship was that once it did not come to pass, it was really too late to put in for any others.
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Well you should have gotten in touch with me...I coulda put a good word in for you with the researcher of firearms records at the Cody museum. Heck I coulda gotten you on the phone with him. If I remember right at the last gun show he said he was getting a little tired of the position. Of course you may be a little over-edumacated to work with him. I think he graduated high school...oh heck...I know he did. He's actually a pretty nice guy. He get's his boss to sign the historical info letters. They actually pay him sometimes!
 
Update 28SEP23

So the quest to become a Classically Trained Firearms Historian continues.

It’s interesting to see how classmates are planning things. Almost every one of them is either going to teach or work for some state historical agency/museum.

I’m the only fellow there who is doing this for their own improvement rather than as some career steppingstone.
On the other hand, Mrs. Vivas would very much like me to get out of my current job field (which takes a pretty decent physical toll and an immense spiritual/psychological toll) and teach.

Anyway, my instructor in my The Research History Seminar class was expounding on the need to get published. I understand that in academia (and she teaches the class towards the idea that all the students will pursue something in academia) publishing is a sort of way of showing one is relevant field-wise. She was really beating that publishing horse though. I can see where there is merit in her argument and although I try to get something out every now and again, I think I really need to step up my publishing game.

I’ve been keeping a little notebook of ideas for future projects. Some are very large and some fairly straight forward. Whats really interesting is how while doing research for one project I will come across a document or image or note that leads me in another direction and makes me say “hmmm…that seems like a new project waiting to be done…”. Mission creep!!!!

A couple are not even about small arms directly but indirectly.

I though I’d share some of the ideas.

Untitled – A piece aimed for the NYS Archives magazine. Describes how I used NYS Library holdings to decipher previously undecipherable NYPD purchase records and construct career biographies on different officers. A rare instance of a non-gun work going out to a non-firearms publication. I think they’ll go for it for a number of reasons, not the least of which is it touts the library’s holdings.

Untitled – A look at the NYPD Model 60 debacle, with a list of returned guns and copies of some of the correspondence between the PBA and their lawyers and S&W. Includes a bunch of stuff from the evaluation program that led to the adoption (and eventual un-adoption) of the M60 NY-1.

The First 500 - An analysis of the first 500 Registered Magnums with an emphasis on the statistical analysis of barrel length, grips, sights and other features based on factory records showing how the guns were configured AS SHIPPED rather than how they appear now after post-factory use/modification. Includes analysis of shipping destinations and timelines as well as some of the purchasers who were famous at the time but have faded into obscurity. This one is getting very big; about 30-35 pages so far and it’s going to go long. It’ll likely be my thesis for The Research Seminar In History 600-level class I’m in now. This is rapidly becoming my gateway drug into wanting to get an RM.

Fairest of The Finest – The use of the S&W .32 HE and the M36-1 3” HB by the NYPD Policewomens Bureau from WW2 through 1973 (and a little beyond). Emphasis on providing serial number data showing what gun went to what officer. Possibly something I may present at next years SWCA Symposium.

Iron Alley – History and overview of the row of gun dealers that populated Centre Market Street behind NYPD HQ and supplied the guns. Jovino, Sile, Lava, etc.

Untitled – History and use of the Colt Cobra revolver by the NYPD, with serial number data and showing what gun went to what officer.

Untitled – History and use of the Colt Metropolitan revolver by the NYPD, with serial number data and showing what gun went to what officer.

Untitled – History and use of the S&W 2” M10 revolver by the NYPD, with serial number data and showing what gun went to what officer. Only 400 ever purchased.

Untitled – Directory of NYC gun dealers from the 1880’s to 1960’s.

SAA Census – This is an ongoing project where I collect data from published Colt historical letters and create a database of Colt SAA info. It’s at about 2,500 entries right now and is really a lot of fun to play with. If you have a gun that shipped to the Joe Blow Mine on 21JAN88 and was part of a 6 gun shipment, you could possibly find what other guns were in the shipment as well as seeing how many guns went to that dealer all together, if the features were early or late, etc. It really has some interesting potential as I add more and more entries to it.

Municipal Firepower – A profusely illustrated piece on the various firearms/artillery used as monuments in my county. I’ve found some Civil War cannons, a 4.5” M1 howitzer, a nice M1917 water cooled on tripod and a German MG 08/15 all used as public monuments. I know there are a bunch more, I just have to locate them and do the history on them.

Untitled – A census of DSC gun orders. Lists DSC gun shipments by date, user, user address, city, state, number of guns in shipment, DSC shipping number and contract number. Most entries would simply say how many guns went on a particular day to a particular address although in some instances there is serial number data. Interesting for seeing where some guns went and in what quantities. Surprising number of mom & pop type places getting one gun or two gun shipments. Some info as well on the forms and procedures for ordering the guns.

NYPD Victory Revolvers – A look at the S&W Victory revolver as used by the NYCPD with serial number data and showing what gun went to what officer. Basically a S&W version of my Colt Commando article that was in the CCA Rampant Colt Fall 2022 issue. ( www.vivasandson.com/CCACommando.pdf )

Trophy Cops – A detailed look at the history of awarding engraved revolvers as prizes to NYPD cops who excelled in various aspects of training from 1917 to 1973. An expansion of a thesis for my undergraduate class. Lists all known Trophy Gun recipients with a brief synopsis of their careers. Serial number data where available. This one is another that will likely run rather long.

So yea, when people ask why I seem to have no time, this is part of the reason!
 
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One of the many research projects I have going on right now is this one, which I described in a post a few weeks ago:

“…Untitled – A census of DSC gun orders. Lists DSC gun shipments by date, user, user address, city, state, number of guns in shipment, DSC shipping number and contract number. Most entries would simply say how many guns went on a particular day to a particular address although in some instances there is serial number data. Interesting for seeing where some guns went and in what quantities. Surprising number of mom & pop type places getting one gun or two gun shipments. Some info as well on the forms and procedures for ordering the guns…”

This is turning out to be quite interesting. I’ve indexed maybe 1,000 or so DSC orders and it’s quite interesting to see who got guns from the DSC. One example is the National Rifle Association taking delivery of 50 Victory revolvers in May 1945. Another is some company that produced cork; you may think that wouldn’t need an armed guard but if you’re a cork maker in WW2 I bet you’re banging out a lot of life jackets and the like, hence the guards.

While the vast majority of the orders don’t contain serial number data but instead will simply say “50 revolvers” a surprising number -do- have serial number data and I’ve picked up perhaps 800 serial numbers of DSC guns that shipped to Boeing, various Ordnance plants, lots of LE agencies, and a surprising number of small companies that you would not immediately think of as vital to the war effort.

I’ve also come across a fair bit of literature about the Plant Protection Forces and how, for administrative and authority purposes, they were considered Auxiliary Military Police. That solved a lot of problems I should think, in places where handguns and their carrying was tightly controlled (looking at you NYC!).

One thing that I came across and find rather fascinating is the 2-inch Victory. Conventional wisdom is that they were produced in relatively small batches, with an eye towards the CID, military intelligence, cloak-and-dagger crowd. For the large part that’s true. What I’m learning is that if you wanted a 2-inch Victory -AND- you had an authorization from DSC, you could simply ask S&W to take your authorized 4-inch and re-fit it to 2-inch!

I’m still going through all the correspondence but apparently, if you contacted DSC for a revolver, they would tell S&W that you were authorized a 4-inch Victory. Once the purchaser found out his authorization was approved for the 4-inch gun, he would contact S&W and ask them to pull the 4-inch barrel and replace it with a 2-inch barrel. There was an additional charge to do this; it was put on a repair bill for $1.50!

If that seems cheap, remember that S&W got to keep the original 4-inch barrel, so their only real cost was the labor, hence the $1.50 repair charge. While civilian arms sales were curtailed during WW2, S&W was allowed to continue to repair civilian guns as long as they had parts on hand.

I found this quite interesting because A) it raises issues about what 2-inch guns are ‘contract’ 2 -inch versus “Hey, here’s a buck and a half, gimme a snubbie!” and B) it explains outliers in 2-inch gun serial ranges.

At some point I’ll have an article with copies of all the correspondence and forms, but right now other projects are taking priority (trying to get my First 500 article finished and out for Spring 2024!).
 
The thought process around being a firearms historian is a little like a cross between treasure hunting and being an archival MacGyver. Sometimes you're on the hunt for an amazing treasure (serial number data) and sometimes you have to adapt, improvise and overcome in order to get things done.

One of the many, many projects I have going on right now is taking the existing NYPD firearms records and ‘enhancing’ them. This involves taking the original document, creating a spreadsheet entry for it and punching in data from other sources for each Patrolman.

The greatest issue is deciphering the handwriting. As I’ve pointed out before, if you can’t read the name all you can do is just confirm the gun went to the Department and was sold to -somebody-.

I’ve just about completed book 42-46, which covers all the Victory sales. I’m doing an article on the NYPD Victory revolver during World War Two and I want to be able to tie a name to each gun. The problem is that the names are illegible.

Normally the solution to this is to take a name like Jxxx SxxTH J(illegible letters here) S(illegible letters here)TH and wash it through a list of Academy graduates or a civil service list. If I know this kid graduated September 1944, I’ll pull up copy of Spring 3100 for that month and look at the list of graduates. 250 kids graduated, fourteen had a first name starting with J. Fine, that narrows it to 14 kids. Now I look and three had a last name that started with S. Great, now down to three kids. Of those three kids, only one had a last name that ended in H. That’s our guy, John SMITH. If there is no graduation list available, then I use a civil service list from an archive I found of The City Record.

This has worked insanely well until I came to a batch of about 300 names from early 1946 for which I could find nothing in Spring 3100 and nothing in the civil service list for 1945 and 1946. This was perplexing.

As with many things, sometimes when you hit a roadblock you have to stop, regroup and approach from another angle.

I decided I would take a drive to the NYS Library in Albany and pull their back issues of Spring 3100 and see if I missed something. It’s a drive and a half day lost but I figured it was worth it.

I’m laying in bed this morning thinking about then trip and how I’d rather stay home and my mind starts wandering around the problem. I started thinking about the hiring process and why there was no civil service list to be found for 1945 or 1946 for these early 1946 kids I was looking at. Then it hit me; the City had a hiring freeze during the war. They were not giving any new civil service exams because of the freeze BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY WEREN’T HIRING OFF AN OLD CIVIL SERVICE LIST.

Plopped down at my desk, pulled up some files and discovered that the last civil service exam for the Police Department was given just after the war started and was published 09SEP42. I took the suspected names of these 1946 kids and ran them against the list. Bingo! These 1946 hires were off the 1942 list!

So now I’m able to confirm the names and attach them to the individual firearms records.

Why is this important?

Because when I publish the list of who got which Victory, you want to be sure your guys name was John BURNS and not John BERNS before you go spend time and resources digging up the background on the wrong Patrolman in an effort to thoroughly document your gun.

So, another roadblock surmounted, and some lessons learned. I hope to have this NYPD Victory article done in the next couple weeks and then get it off to the SWCA people to see if they have an interest in publishing it.

Best,
RM Vivas
 
Museum Guns

So, the quest to become a Firearms Historian continues...

One of the classes I am taking right now is Curatorial Practices for Historical Agencies. This class is another ‘behind the scenes’ of how museums operate. It’s really quite fascinating and the temptation to be that fellow who walks in the doors of a museum and never leaves is quite tempting.

One of the projects we are working on right now is to select an object from the museums deaccessions list and write an opinion on whether the object should stay or go.

It took a little horse trading but I was able to swap objects with another student and my object was an Eli Whitney NYS Contract musket. I have to write on why I think the museum should keep or get rid of it. I favor keeping it, but that not the point of this post.

In order to support my argument for keeping it, I figured that I should know if the museum had any more muskets like it. After all, you don’t need twenty Whitney muskets. If, however, they only have one...

OK, not a big deal. I asked the instructor how many Whitney or Whitney-type muskets the museum has. She said she was not sure but would get back to me. Later I got a spreadsheet emailed to me with 300 guns that ran the gamut from Japanese matchlocks to belt-fed crew served!

I’ve pared down the list to include only Colts and S&W’s. I left the Maxim’s on there just for fun.

Assuming that the information in the document the museum provided is correct, I could probably do a stand alone article on “The Wells Fargo Colts of the New York State Museum”. The S&W revolver listed as belonging to Admiral Potter, however, sounds interesting. Also, there may be something to be done with the Wesson rifles.

Note the Colt revolving rifle!

ID Number Object Name Maker Date Made Description Remarks / History
H-1942.5.17 Rifle 1880, SN 751, Wesson single shot
H-1942.5.20 Carbine 1860, SN 10066, Colt revolving
H-1942.5.22 Rifle 1880, SN 2197, Wesson single shot
H-1942.5.35 Rifle 1880, SN 5360, Colt's Saddle Gun
H-1970.151.1 Revolver Manhattan Firearms Company 1850, "Wells Fargo" model percussion revolver. Frame is engraved. Cylinder is engraved with a stagecoach scene.
H-1972.76.7 Revolver ca. 1917 Smith & Wesson Model 1917 .45 caliber revolver. Serial number 111142. Lanyard ring at the butt with a piece of leather string attached. Dark black metal. "United States Property" engraved on the underside of the barrel
H-1976.113.1 A-B Revolver 1900, SN 251480, with black leather holster, belt, etc. Smith & Wesson
H-1977.200.1 Gun, Machine Maxim, Hiram 1914-1918 1910, SN 43100, on sled mount, M'08
H-1977.200.2 Gun, Machine Maxim, Hiram 1914-1918 1910, SN 9733, on bipod, M'08-'15 Spandau
H-1980.36.2 A-B Revolver 1900, pearl grips, S&W, holster
H-1984.85.4 Revolver Colt's Patented Fire Arms Manufacturing Company 1860 1860 Colt Navy percussion revolver. Steel is blued. Wooden grip. Serial number 88252
H-2003.29.1 Pistol Colt's Patented Fire Arms Manufacturing Company ca. 1898 Long barrel, six-shot revolver. Blued steel components. Wooden grips, left of which notched in five places. Owned by Frederick C. Anderson (1872-1954) and used by him as a soldier 1898-1900. Serving among other places in Cuba, Philippines and China. He reportedly killed five men, one of whom tried to rob him in China. Anderson in 1954 used the pistol to commit suicide. The weapon was acquired by the donor, who notes he grew up next door to Anderson "like a grandfather to me". See file folder for more about Anderson.
H-XX.320.1 Revolver Smith & Wesson 1860 Smith & Wesson rimfire revolver for 22 caliber rounds. Dark wooden grip. 75237 serial number stamped on the metal part of the grip.
H-XX.322.1 Revolver 1860, rimfire, Smith & Wesson
H-XX.322.2 Revolver 1890, nickle-plated, Smith & Wesson
H-XX.322.3 Revolver Smith & Wesson 1890 Smith & Wesson top break revolver with lanyard ring. No grip is attached to the frame. Belonged to Admiral Potter.
H-XX.322.5 A Revolver 1910, SN 83115, M1917 Colt & holster XX.322.5 B (holster) is in C03-H10-B03-4
H-XX.322.6 A-B Pistol 1920, semi-automatic, SN 8127, Colt Super .38
H-XX.374.2 Revolver Colt's Patented Fire Arms Manufacturing Company 1860 Colt Navy percusion revolver, Serial Number 11137. Cylinder is engraved with images of sailing ships on the water. Photographed by NYS Archives 11/1997 for publication
H-XX.374.3 Revolver Colt's Patented Fire Arms Manufacturing Company 1850 Colt Wells Fargo percussion revolver. Serial number 144842. Engraving of a stagecoach scene on the cylinder
H-XX.374.4 A-E Revolver 1850, cased set, complete, Colt Wells Fargo
 
So hows the quest to be a Firearms Historian going?

Slowly. This semester is extremely challenging as the newest addition to my bloodline rifle squad has really created some time conflicts!

One thing that happens when you try to be a Firearms Historian is that there is occasionally some mission creep.

While my speciality is NYPD firearms, you can't really work on that without also picking up a lot of NYPD history. I have no desire to learn the political machinations of the 1950's NYPD, but when researching the 1950's gun awards, contracts and the like, you can't help but get a working knowledge The Brass.

A by-product of this mission creep was the need to try and establish biographies of people once a gun had been tied to them. My records show who got a gun and when, but they don't give much other info on the person.

Whilst poking around different archives, databases and 'proof of concept' datamines, I came across a wealth of data that was in a very raw form. However, I figured with a little tweaking, I might be able to mold it into something usable for me.

Behold, the fruits of my efforts: a 500+ page directory of every employee of the NYPD in 1940.

Name, command, home address, date of appointment, annual salary

https://www.vivasandson.com/1940.pdf

You got a gun that a guy bought in 1937? Great. But what did he do -after- that? This tells you where he was in 1940. I'm assembling similar directories starting in 1900 and going forward every 5 years.

The other directory I am assembling is a yearly guide that shows who was:
hired, fired, disciplined, retired, transferred, detailed, received a reward, dismissed, promoted, demoted, died, etc. Now THAT directory is great. I've put one together for 1941 through 1946. You punch in a guys name and it tells you he was appointed 21UL41, transferred to the 25th Pct. 09FEB42, caught a 3-day rip 22NOV43, was promoted 09SEP46, etc.

Have a look at the first type of directory and tell me what you think. I threw some photos in just for fun.

Best,
RM Vivas
 
I hope you will be able to turn this study into a lucrative future as a firearms expert. I remember how the plaintiff's counsel in the case I referred to in my prior post was really surprised when I showed up at the pre-trial conference as the in-house firearms expert for our firm. My testimony in the Motion to Dismiss helped to get our client out of a lot of expenditure of time and treasure.
 
The end is in sight at last, I think/hope.

All my classes thus far have been pretty straightforward. However, the one I just wrapped up was a gold-plated pain in the …..

As many of you know, the past year as presented some challenges; my fourth bout with COVID early in 2024 (I’m a healthcare worker so the Chinese Flu and I have danced many times), my Little Bear (Rigby Mauser) came on scene in April, and in June I nearly cashed it all in on a motorcycle v. Porsche accident that still has me gimping around. Tough year. Although as I pointed out to Mrs. Vivas, no one is dead, pregnant or in jail, so I think we're doing ok.

The University has been surprisingly accommodating. I have a damn good advisor and I suspect he smoothed out a lot of things behind the scenes to allow me to get Incompletes with no expiration date in a lot of classes I was signed up for when I got hit.

So, I finished up one incomplete course.

As of yesterday, I have wrapped up what was for me the most miserable of all my classes. I won’t bore you with the details but it was the sort of class that, once I learned I was done with it and had an acceptable grade, no longer felt like a stone upon my shoulders.

By the way, the term ‘acceptable grade’ has a completely different meaning in graduate school. You can skate through a bachelors degree with C’s. However, you need a minimum GPA of 3.0 in graduate school for a class to count. I’ve been cooking a 3.7 or so but this last class I caught a C.

Normally that class would not be counted towards my Masters because the grade was below a 3.0 (B); however, since my GPA is above a 3.0 and this C will STILL leave it above a 3.0, it’s not really an issue. Does it drag down my GPA? Yup. Do I care? No.

GPA’s in the quest for a Bachelors have some value, as they can help or hinder post-graduate studies. For me at this level, it wont make a difference. Besides, after my Masters there really isn’t much more. IF IF IF I went for a Doctorate then it -might- be ab issue but I will be picking up some work experience in the history field. Plus, what I’ve had published, have coming in the word processor and a few other little goodies would, I think, help push me along. And some pretty good references ;)

So whats left?

I need 36 credits and then stand in front of my committee. I have 32 credits. I have two incomplete reading courses of 2 credits each and I expect to have them banged out in the next couple months. Then I go before my committee and then I’m done.

So, with a bit of luck, I can have my Masters Degree in Public History all wrapped up in time for the June S&WCA Symposium!

Best,
RM Vivas


I had an incomplete class from Fall semester last year that I was finally able to close out with a good grade.
 
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