AHIS596 Practicum in Digital History

Housekeeping

  • define positivism & constructivism
  • what's the difference between "what happened" and "what is said to have happened"
  • why does the boundary between "what happened" and "what is said to have happened" matter?
  • why do archival silences matter?

Trouillout

  • 1 rule to divide everything into baskets
  • at least 3 baskets
  • no basket with only 1 item!