4/6 Tulsa Race Massacre Project – Grad Student Meeting
Read:
- Madigan, The Burning, Chaps. 8-10 (41 pp)
- Miriam Posner, “How did they Make That?” (re-read this, please. The questions it asks about project-building will guide the blog post for the week)
Compare:
- Gateway to Oklahoma History (OK Historical Society)
- 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (Tulsa Historical Society)
- Race Massacre Collections at TU’s McFarlin Library
To at least TWO of the following:
- Making the History of 1989 (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media)
- The Colored Conventions Projects (Penn State U)
- American On the Move (Smithsonian)
- “We Return Fighting”: The African American Experience in WWI (Smithsonian, scroll to the bottom and “Journey through the Exhibition”)
- Florida in WWI or Florida in WWII (Florida Memory Project)
- 1918 Flu Pandemic in Utah (U of Utah)
- A Journal of the Plague Year, Exhibits (Arizona State U)
- Gather Out of Star-Dust: The Harlem Renaissance and The Beinecke Library (Yale)
- Square Dance History Projects (amateur history project)
GRAD STUDENTS ONLY: Proposal for your #Syllabus or Digital Supplement Project is due today. You will present your proposal during our class meeting(also submit a written version to me via email).
EVERYONE: Comment on your peers’ blogs
4/8 Introducing Omeka – Everyone Meet Today
Watch:
- Dr. Alicia Odewale’s Lecture, “Digital Humanities and Restorative Justice Archeology”
Workshop: Using Omeka – Guest Megan Macken
Blog Post 11 Due by 10 am. See the course blog for the topic.
