Class Notes for September 19
Review Assignment
- Twitter conversations
- Blog posts
- Take aways from this assignment
- blogging best practices
- what is historical analysis?
- what does it mean to construct an argument?
- missing from responses: notion of network ethics, strong statements on “the commons.” Why?
Readings for Today
- Sam Wineburg, “Thinking Like a Historian,” TPS Quarterly.
- Key Concepts:
- Reading documents: author, context, time period—that form a mental framework for the details to follow. Most important of all, these questions transform the act of reading from passive reception to an engaged and passionate interrogation.
- Sourcing: Think about a document’s author and its creation.
- Contextualizing: Situate the document and its events in time and place.
- Close reading: Carefully consider what the document says and the language used to say it.
- Using Background Knowledge: Use historical information and knowledge to read and understand the document.
- Reading the Silences: Identify what has been left out or is missing from the document by asking questions of its account.
- Corroborating: Ask questions about important details across multiple sources to determine points of agreement and disagreement
- Key Concepts:
- Cohen and Rosenzweig, Digital History, “Collecting History Online.”
- Key Concepts:
- Traditional archives v. Online
- Interactivity
- Preservation
- Born Digital v. Digitized
- Intellectual Property/Privacy/Authenticity
- Key Concepts:
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