{"id":2059,"date":"2023-03-21T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2023-04-04T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T17:49:30","slug":"web-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/blog\/2023\/03\/21\/web-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Review: History.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The website history.com is a database that provides entertainment\/\u201dhistory\u201d on various topics. The information on the site is not unreliable but it should also be avoided for serious papers. The site should be used more for basic knowledge and entertainment rather than reliable information. One of the blog posts published by Erin Blakemore, who only has a BA in history, entitled \u201cFrank Sinatra\u2019s Mob Ties and Other Secrets From His FBI File\u201d reads more like a buzz feed article than a historical blog post. The article makes claims that Sinatra avoided the draft by having the mafia pay off a doctor to write a false medical note and in return Sinatra introduced the mafia to the Kennedy campaign. The article uses phrases such as \u201callegedly\u201d and \u201csupposedly\u201d voiding all credibility to the claims. The site makes use of a primary source photo of Sinatra signing documents unrelated to any claims made in the post.\u00a0 The information on the site is unreliable. Another blog post on the saint valentine&#8217;s murder which provides the basic facts mixed with unreliable conjecture affirms the site\u2019s unreliability. While the site provides basic information with wild conjecture the site was easy to navigate and provided a number of blog posts per topic searched.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website history.com is a database that provides entertainment\/\u201dhistory\u201d on various topics. The information on the site is not unreliable but it should also be avoided for serious papers. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/discovering1920s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}