Students will learn about primary and secondary sources and their role in academic work.
Students will learn to apply primary sources in their current course work in the "Ken Burns" documentary style.
Students will learn basic archives and open web primary source search strategies.
Students will learn about the role of archives and metadata in academia and society.
Primary sources might be impactful, but if we don't know anything about the source, then does it lose value? Let's play a game! With no meta data, can we guess who is in the following images?
Primary and Secondary Sources
An original experiment that gathers data is a primary source, while a book interpreting a culture through an authors perspective is secondary; but even though it isn't scholarly, a person speaking on behalf of themselves is also a primary source. Our conversations in class will help you make sense of all this :-)
1. Primary & Secondary Sources: OPEN WEB
Primary Sources: first-hand accounts, eye-witness testimony, original research in scholarship, person on the scene telling what they saw, etc.
Secondary Sources: someone recording (and publishing) a report or contextual text with those first-hand accounts. Most newspapers and news agencies on tv work as secondary sources.
google searches (put in your own keywords):
oral history:immigrant greece
letter:women's right to vote
photographs:civil rights protest alabama
interview:covid-19 pandemic high school students
diary:evolution fight in schools
The Digital Public Library of America dp.la
Statewide Archive Portals
California (online archive)
Utah Div. of State History
Oregon Historical Archives
Others...
2. Primary & Secondary Sources: HISTORY DATABASES
Library databases (like we're now used to using) have a lot of the great traditional analysis of what matters in themes like your art project talks about...
Print Books & Ebooks in the library catalog [sample book search for history of women & equity in the 1800s]
America: History & Life
JSTOR (go to 'history' subject in adv. srch)
Historical Newspapers (this one sometimes appears in the primary source list)
Utah Digital Newspapers
New York Times Historical Newspaper (from 1851 onwards!)
The Pittsburg Courier (prominent African-American newspaper from 1911-2002)
Why are the images of women so very different?
"Three Women." Boston Public Library, n.d.
and
"Two Women." Utah Territorial Statehouse State Park Museum, n.d.
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