Slides from Tuesday, Jan. 30
Slide from Wednesday, Jan. 31
Try adding the two articles into your Zotero account tonight using the Zotero Connector for Google Chrome.
Month: January 2018
Slides from Monday, Jan. 29
Everyone should read ALL of the articles. However, spend more time on the articles assigned to your group (below) and spend 15-20 minutes exploring the digital archive you were assigned to. What do you notice about it? How is it organized? Post your quote, comment and question and consider the digital archive in your post.
Post-Custodial Approach: James, Lauren, Will, Zack, Liam and Alyssa
García Márquez Archive: Jesse, Jon, Al, Noa, Anya, Rose
Check out this Q&A: The U.S. Has Way Too Many Secrets
Slides from Thursday, Jan. 25
For Monday, read the Zinn and Doyle articles and the Preface, Intro, Foreword and Ch. 1 and SKIM the sources in Appendix D in the Cullather book. The following groups will lead us through each of the 3 readings:
Zinn: James, Will, Lauren, Zack
Doyle: Rose, Noa, Al, Anya
Cullather: Liam, Jesse, Alyssa, Jon
And check out the digital humanities tools that we looked at today:
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
StoryMaps and NeatLine (Swarthmore Project on 1969 Sit-In)
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Slides from Wednesday, Jan. 24.
Read: Preface; Ch. 1-6, 10-13; Afterwords; Sources and Notes
Watch: Short video of sentencing at the 1985 trials
Consider at least one of the following questions in your post:
What archival questions do these “confessions” raise?
What do you notice about Scilingo’s use of language?
What is the role of Verbitsky in this story?
And check out the recent New Yorker article on Eva Schloss! The New Dimensions in Testimony exhibit is now open at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
Slides from Tuesday, January 23
In your posts for tomorrow, consider at least one of the following questions:
What are some key differences between the countries that Bickford examines (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay), and how have those differences shaped archival questions in each?
How would you define what Bickford calls, “The Archival Imperative”?
What changed from Bickford’s examination of Chile in 1999 to Strauss’s view in 2015?
Slides from Monday, January 22
Check out our course’s library guide!
Citation Resources:
Citing Primary Source Documents – Purdue
Slides from Wednesday, Jan 17
As part of your discussion post tonight, pose a question or questions you’d like to ask the archivist at HHRC tomorrow. This could be about the work of an archivist in general or specifically about archival practice at the Center. What would you like to know in order to analyze the documents housed there?
Slides from Tuesday, Jan 16
Slides from Monday, January 15
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Slides from Monday, Jan. 8