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Syllabus and Course Info 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
Wednesday, October 23: The American Guide Series
Due Today:
Read excerpt from Christine Bold’s The WPA Guides: Mapping America Marguerite Shaffer's See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (in Dropbox).
Explore the online exhibit The American Guide Series: American Culture Defined from Utah State University.
