Episodes: Families in Transition.
Members of the RED group will read Mary P. Ryan,
"A Women's Awakening: Evangelical Religion and the Families of Utica, New York, 1800-1840,"
American Quarterly 30 (Winter 1978): 602-623.
Members of the GREEN group will read Drew Gilpin Faust,
"Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War"
Journal of American History (March 1990): 1200-1228.
Members of the BLUE group will read Jed Dannenbaum,
"The Origins of Temperance Activism and Militancy among American Women,"
Journal of Social History 15 (Winter 1981): 235-252.
Members of the PURPLE group will read John F. McClymer,
"Late Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class Living Standards,"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17 (Autumn 1986): 379-398.
We will have a round-robin discussion of these articles in class.
Please send me an email before the end of today in which you give your self-assessment of your contributions to the class discussions and online conversations. See the syllabus guidelines for specific details.
Episodes: The Epidemic Challenge in New Orleans and Memphis.
Search the
History Engine for the keyword "fever," looking in
event descriptions and limiting your search to the subject category
"health/death." Read at least for episodes from the resulting list,
including one or more not on the first page of results.
You may optionally read a contemporary account of
"The Plague in the Southwest: The Great Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1853"
DeBow's Review 15 (Dec 1853: 595-635).
Your First Episode.
Please bring to class with you two printed copies of your first draft
episode text. These should be as close to a finished submission
as possible, including all citations in correct format,
your title, start and end dates, episode location, and subject
keywords.
You will probably find it helpful to review the
History Engine
"Writing" guidelines page on their website before finalizing
your episode. Episodes should be typed, double-spaced, and provided
with ample margins for peer commentary.
Please review and bring with you to class a copy of the
Peer Editing Worksheet
and the
Style Guide.
We will be meeting in a computer lab (LRC) for this session.
Peer Review.
There will be no session today.
Work on peer reviews and episode research. This might be a good time to visit the archives for work on your remaining episodes.
Peer Review.
There will be no session today.
Please complete the peer review worksheet for your partner's episode. Please e-mail a copy of your review to your partner and a copy to me. These should be completed by no later than 9:00 a.m. today. Although these will not be formally graded by me as a separate assignment your peer review comments will be considered as a component of your overall project responsibility. I will read your partner's review as one element of my evaluation of your overall work. You must complete the peer reviews to pass the overall assignment.
Please be sure that you have updated your research journal for this week.
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