Reclaiming the New Deal: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History
Balancing the relevance of the New Deal with the changing communities who use those projects, then bringing those conversations into the classroom.
Balancing the relevance of the New Deal with the changing communities who use those projects, then bringing those conversations into the classroom.
Well, we’re not going anywhere for a while. And with classes cancelled or moved online, many of us are looking for ways to engage our history students beyond traditional online discussions and textbook-reading. Here’s one way I do that with crowdsourced history projects that involve primary source learning, reinforce secondary source research, and assist local and national archives and history projects: