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Syllabus (Fall 2019)

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  • Monday, August 26: What is the Cultural New Deal?
  • Wednesday, August 28: What is Digital History?
  • Monday, September 2: NO CLASS -- Labor Day
  • Wednesday, September 4: A New Deal for Who?
  • Monday, September 9: Guest Presentation -- Tony Guidone
  • Wednesday, September 11: Omeka Workshop / Digital Collections and Archives
  • Monday, September 16: The Federal One Project and The Folk
  • Wednesday, September 18: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain
  • Monday, September 23: The Dust Bowl, Migration, and Documentary Expression
  • Wednesday, September 25: Image Annotation and Glitching
  • Monday, September 30: No Class / At-Home Assignment
  • Wednesday, October 2: Pop Culture in the 1930s
  • Monday, October 7: The Popular Front, Feminism, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
  • Wednesday, October 9: Critical DH // Thinking Through Algorithms
  • Tuesday, October 14 - Fall Break (class moved to Tuesday): Historical Research in the Digital Age
  • Wednesday, October 16: Oral History // Timelines
  • Monday, October 21: Federal Writers Project / Text Analysis (pt.1)
  • Wednesday, October 23: The American Guide Series
  • Monday, October 28: Federal Writers' Project / Text Analysis (pt.2)
  • Wednesday, October 30: Mapping the 1930s
  • Monday, November 4: Federal Theatre Project
  • Wednesday, November 6: Visit to GMU Special Collections
  • Monday, November 11: Federal Music Project
  • Wednesday, November 13: Digital Sound Studies
  • Monday, November 18: Federal Art Project
  • Wednesday, November 20: Comic Books, Memes, and GIFs
  • Monday, November 25: HUAC and the Decline of Federal One
  • Wednesday, November 27: NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving Holiday
  • Monday, December 2: Digital Citizenship
  • Wednesday, December 4: Legacies of the New Deal
  • FINAL PROJECT: Due Friday, December 13

Monday, October 28: Federal Writers' Project / Text Analysis (pt.2)

Due Today:

  • Read and annotate:
    • Miriam Posner’s Investigating Texts with Voyant Tools

    • Experiencing the September 11 Digital Archive, Using Omeka’s Ngrams and Text Analysis Plugins

    • Using Omeka’s Two Distant Reading Plugins to Explore the Language of Death and Mourning in the September 11 Digital Archive

Resources:

  • Google Books Ngram Viewer
  • Mining Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" Columns
  • Voyant Tools and Documentation

Assignments:

  • Skill #5 pt.2/Blog post #6: Due by the start of class Wednesday, November 6.

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