PRELIMINARY LIST OF YEAR ASSIGNMENTS (9/13/2007)

 

NAME

YEARS

Barker

1832, 1850, 1889

Barnes

1824, 1867, 1883

Bartlett

1837, 1887

Brearley

1830, 1885

Cain

1834, 1862

Ehrlich

1828, 1851, 1863

Franda

1836, 1854

Gatten

1838, 1853, 1869

Gilliland

1842, 1852, 1877

Hazelwood

1845, 1856, 1857

Mangum

1839, 1858, 1874

Massar

1844, 1873, 1879

McCain

1846, 1859, 1876

McLain

1833, 1855, 1880

Miller

1840, 1860, 1861

Newman

1841, 1868

Novak

1826, 1849, 1866

Olson

1827, 1890

Proctor

1821, 1886, 1852

Ries

1835, 1872, 1888

Saxton

1823, 1871, 1887

Sorrells

1829, 1878, 1847

Spigner

1843, 1870, 1875

Tate

1825, 1848, 1864

Vaught

1822, 1881, 1882

 

Explanation of Assignments:

Years were assigned using a random number generator.  Some years were identified as especially busy or active.  If you were assigned only two years it is because they fall in this category.  The total number of events you will be expected to add to the database will be roughly the same (15-18) regardless of whether you have two or three years assigned to you. Those with two years should develop a list of eight to nine events per year, and those assigned three years should identify five or six events per year.  In your final submitted list, no year should have less than four events.

  

Your initial list of events will need to be added to our online database before the due date.  For this initial round it will be acceptable to use online resources as sources, though you will also need to consult print volumes.   The source expectations for the later History Engine entries will be significantly higher, of course, but right now we are just trying to develop and refine our basic lists.

 

Determining when and where your events happened may prove more difficult than one might expect. One of the most important purposes of this assignment is to encourage your own reflection and judgment about such determinations.  One plausible strategy might be to focus on the decision time-points and decision-places most critical to the event.  You could locate the passage of an important law or the announcement of an important court decision at capital city or court town.  Because the database allows you to identify the âœscope❠of an event, it is possible for you to indicate in your entries both that the key decisions happened at a specific place but that the implications extended to the larger area of âœstate,❠âœregion,❠âœcountry,❠etc. You will want to be as precise as possible about the month and the day something happened, and be thoughtful about the place of its occurrence.

 

Fun and Local Events

In addition to the assigned "important" events, I would like you to include at least one fun, unusual, odd, quirky, or unexpected event in your list, and one event from your home town (or a reasonable facsimile such as Greenville).  The home town event does not have to be from your assigned years, but it should be from the period 1820-1890, and if not your year it should be as early as possible.