Week 1

 

WORKSHOP: Reading Documents

 

 

Consider the following questions with regard to your primary sources:

  • How do we read the particular sources and genres of evidence you are analyzing?
  • How do you present those approaches and strategies, and incorporate them into a hypertext?

 

 

Week 2

 

WORKSHOP: Editing Documents

 

 

Consider the following question with regard to your primary sources:

  • What needs explanation in your sources -- people, places, references, language, appearance, style, genre?

 

 

Week 3

 

WORKSHOP: Contextualizing Documents

 

 

Consider the following questions with regard to your primary sources:

  • What are the possible contexts for your sources:
    • background material necessary to understand them
    • issues that they shed light on
    • issues that shed light on them
    • different interpretations of them offered by historians

From these possibilities you will need to select the material that you think is the most important to understanding the source

  • What connections and associations exist among the different elements that you have selected?

 

 

Week 4

 

Documents in Contexts: The Social Evil in Chicago

 

 

The Social Evil in Chicago -- my work-in-progress (a possible template for your project?)

 

 

Week 5

 

Individual Meetings

 

 

Bring a design concept for presenting your content using hypertext

 

 

Week 6

 

Documents in Context: Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture

 

 

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture

Additional Reading:

 

 

Week 7

 

Documents in Context: Do History: Martha Ballard's Diary Online

 

 

Do History: Martha Ballard's Diary Online

Additional Reading:

 

 

Week 8

 

Progress Reports

 

 

A presentation of no more than 10 minutes by each student on where they are at with the content and design of their project

 

 

Week 9

 

WORKSHOP

 

 

The subject(s) of this workshop will emerge from the progress reports that you present the preceding week. Possible topics: Scanning; writing HTML code; working with frames; working with images

 
Week 10 PUBLIC HOLIDAY

 

Week 11

 

Documents in Context: Famous Trials

 

 

Famous Trials

Additional Reading:

 

 

Week 12

 

Documents in Context: 1896: The Presidential Campaign

 

 

1896: The Presidential Campaign

 

 

Week 13

 

Reflections on Hypertext and History

 

 

Informal presentations on the process of completing the assignment, and the relation between the two semesters of the course