How do we find relevance in the New Deal when its sites have changed?
Continue reading “Reclaiming the New Deal: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History”WPA, Then and Now: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History, Pt. I
As my students work on their final Citizen-Historian Project (read more here), I feel like it’s only fair that I participate with them. So let’s hit the Internet, hit our bikes, and log some New Deal sites around Minneapolis for the Living New Deal project!
Continue reading “WPA, Then and Now: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History, Pt. I”Crowdsourced History Projects in the Time of Social Distancing: A Virtual Classroom Project
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:
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