Class Schedule

Intro to the class
Intro to the libraries
Reading/Research blogs

• Today's Readings:
  • Shrine of Nonlinear Reading
  • A Sense of History
  • Libraries and the Anxiety of Order

Databases & records
Secondary sources
Intro to searching

• Today's Readings:
  • Finding the Facts
  • Secondary sources in the Library
  • Dancing with Professors

Historical evidence
Newspapers and magazines as historical evidence
Using digitized newspapers

• Today's readings:
  • Historical Sources
  • Primary Sources: Handle with Care
• Assignment Due:
  • Hometown newspaper
  • Blog reading response

Images as historical evidence
Finding images

• Today's Readings:
  • All Photos Lie
  • Displaced Smiles
  • Making Sense of Advertisements

Film as historical evidence
Movie review sources

• Today's Readings:
  • We'll Always have the Movies
  • Casablanca and the Home Front
  • Making Sense of Film
• Assignment Due:
  • Advertisement Analysis

Keeping track of research: Refworks

• Today's Readings:
  • In Praise of Footnotes
  • Where Have All the Footnotes Gone?
• Assignment Due:
  • Blog research response

Letters, diaries, and memoirs as historical evidence
Finding personal narratives

• Today's Readings:
  • U.S. Women on the Home Front in World War II
  • Making Sense of Letters and Diaries
  • I Write for Myself and Strangers
• Assignments Due:
  • Mini portfolio
  • Film Analysis

Oral histories as historical evidence

• Today's Readings:
  • On Using Oral History Collections
  • Oral History and the Story of America and World War II
  • Remembering Ahanagran (introduction)
• Assignment Due:
  • Blog reading response

Government documents as historical evidence

• Today's Reading:
  • Technical Fairy First Class

Manuscripts & archives as historical evidence
Using Special Collections

• Today's Reading:
  • Archival Information (introduction)

Using the Web for historical research

• Today's Reading:
  • Evaluating Online Resources
• Assignment Due:
  • Blog research response

Presentations

• Assignment Due:
  • Final Portfolio