HIST 390 (006)
The Digital Past
A Cultural New Deal
Professor Jessica Dauterive
(she/her/hers)
Fall 2019
Course syllabus: jessicadoeshistory.com/cnd
Who We Are
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What are we doing here?
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Crash Course in 20th century history (to 1930)
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Course platforms and first assignment!!!
Why the 1930s?
What is history?
An argument about how to interpret the past.
This is rooted in asking historical questions and using primary sources to investigate those questions.
How do I ask historical questions?
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Find a topic that interests you and ask specific why or how questions about the information you learn. For example, In what ways did Cajun identity change in the 1950s?
- Nothing with a simple answer: Who was the first Cajun musician to record Cajun music?
- Nothing with a yes or no answer: Did Cajuns appear at the 1936 National Folk Festival?
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Locate secondary research on that topic before searching for primary sources.
- Talk to professors, librarians, or other experts!
- Keep asking questions -- let the things you learn revise and shape your questions as you go.
Guide to Asking Good Questions: https://www.williamcronon.net/researching/questions.htm
1. Select
2. Analyze
3.Assemble
Doing History with Primary Sources in Three Easy Steps:
Progressive Era
(1890-1920)
Progressive Era
(1890-1920)
World War I
(1914-1918)
(US Involvement 1917-1918)
Jim Crow and the KKK
The Roaring Twenties
Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929
Progressive Era
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Response to Gilded Age
- Industrialization
- Monopolies
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Reform Movements:
- Suffrage
- Civil Rights
- Urban Poor / immigrants
1920s
World War I
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Global Warfare
- New tactics
- Armistice / temporary peace
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Russian Revolution
- Birth of global communism/anticommunism
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Continued racial inequality
- Jim Crow segregation in South
- Housing discrimination in North
- Rise of second KKK/WKKK
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"Roaring Twenties"
- Great Migration/Harlem Renaissance
- Radio and silent films
- Flappers
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Women's movement
- 18th amendment
- 19th amendment
Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929
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