Assignment Due October 29

Reading: 

• Joshua Brown, “History and the Web, From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries,” Rethinking History, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2004).
• Philip J. Ethington, “Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge: A Multimedia Essay to Accompany the December Issue of The American Historical Review.”
• Explore Joshua Brown, Ithaca, A Graphic Novel in Several Parts.

Group:

• Your group should be prepared to present a “research strategy” to the class on Monday.
  • This strategy should include the following:
    • a statement of the historical question you seek to answer
    • a review of how your group divides labor
    • an overview of the data, archives, and other primary sources that you plan to use at the this stage
      • be sure that spatial history, data mining and analysis, textual analysis, and visual and aural culture are represented in this overview.
      • be sure you have a sense of the chronological scope of the data. Ask yourself if the data will be broad enough to address your question, but also manageable within our timeframe for producing these projects.