HIST 390 (002)

The Digital Past //

A Cultural New Deal

Professor "Jess" Dauterive

(she/her)

Spring 2020

Who We Are

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Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929

What is the Cultural New Deal?

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?

  • 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?
  • 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.

1. Select

2. Analyze
3.Assemble

Doing History with Primary Sources in Three Easy Steps:

Omeka

Wordpress

Slack

Hypothesis

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