Schedule
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading/Other | Assignment Due |
| 1 | Aug 31 | Course Introduction / What is Public History? | ||
| Sept 2 | Why Does Public History Matter? / Digital Humanities / Curating the City | Linenthal, “Committing History in Public” (ECR); Glassberg, Sense of History, Chap. 1; Cohen & Rosenzweig, “Digital History” (Web); City of Memory (Web); “Scholars Test Web Alternative to Sacred Rite of Peer Review” (Web); PhilaPlace (Web); City of Memory (Web); Curating the City (Web); Euclid Corridor History Project (Web); YouTube – CSU Digital Humanities’ Channel (Web) | ||
| 2 | Sept 7 | Oral History as a Method / Oral History as Public History | Baylor University Intro to Oral History (Web) | |
| Sept 9 | Introduction to Special Collections / Audacity Training | Meet in Special Collections | List of Topics & Oral Histories Due | |
| 3 | Sept 14 | An Urban History Primer: The Rise, Decline, & Renewal of Downtown | Fogelson, Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, Chap. 1 (ECR); Johns, Moment of Grace, Chap. 2 (ECR); Isenberg, Downtown America, Chap. 7 (ECR) | |
| Sept 16 | Walking Tour of Downtown Cleveland | Meet in MC 440: We will cover Euclid Ave., Public Square, the Arcade, Erieview | ||
| 4 | Sept 21 | Image Analysis Training | Isenberg, Downtown America, Chap. 2 (ECR)
Meet in Special Collections |
Sound Clips Due (on Blog) |
| Sept 23 | Sound Clip Evaluation / Memory & Commemoration | Glassberg, Sense of History, Chaps. 2 & 3; Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (Web); September 11 Digital Archive (Web) | Sound Clip Comments Due (on Blog) | |
| 5 | Sept 28 | Archives / Digital Archiving | Miller, “Archives & Historical Manuscripts” (ECR); Cohen & Rosenzweig, “Preserving Digital History” (Web) | |
| Sept 30 | Omeka Training: Uploading & Metadata | Meet in Special Collections | Image Collection Due (on Flash Drive) | |
| 6 | Oct 5 | History Museums / Historical Societies | History Museums in the United States, Chap. 1; Hansen, “Philadelphia Museum Shaped Early American Culture” (Web); Mondello, “A History of Museums, ‘The Memory of Mankind’” (Web) | |
| Oct 7 | Modes of Museum Interpretation | History Museums in the United States, Chaps. 2 & 5 | ||
| 7 | Oct 12 | Living History / First Person Interpretation / Colonial Williamsburg | History Museums in the United States, Chap. 3; Greenspan, “Colonial Williamsburg” (ECR); Handler & Gable, The New History in an Old Museum, Chap. 5 (ECR); YouTube – Colonial Williamsburg’s Channel (Web) | |
| Oct 14 | Historic House Museums / Slavery & Public History | History Museums in the United States, Chap. 4; Eichstedt & Small, Representations of Slavery, Chap. 5 (ECR); Brown, “New Signpost at Slavery’s Crossroads” (Web); Stodghill, “Driving Back Into Louisiana’s History” (Web); Klein, “1 Part History, 2 Parts Shrine” (Web) | Primary Source Essay Due (Hard copy) | |
| 8 | Oct 19 | Museums in the Digital Age | White House Historical Association / Classroom (Web); Colonial Williamsburg: “What to See and Do,” “Multimedia,” “Tour the Town” (Web) | |
| Oct 21 | Historic Sites / Tourism as Public History | Weeks, Gettysburg, Chaps. 5 & 6 (ECR); YouTube – Pickett’s Charge Reenactment (Web) | ||
| 9 | Oct 26 | The City as Museum: Lowell & Cleveland | Stanton, The Lowell Experiment | |
| Oct 28 | The City as Storyboard / Omeka Posters | Hayden, The Power of Place, intro, Chaps. 1-4, any chapter from Chaps. 5-10
Meet in Special Collections |
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| 10 | Nov 2 | History by Hollywood: View Mississippi Burning | Toplin, Reel History, Chap. 1 (ECR); Carnes, Past Imperfect, “A Conversation Between Eric Foner and John Sayles” (ECR) | Omeka Poster Due |
| Nov 4 | Discuss Miss. Burning / Documentary Film from Edison to Ken Burns | Glassberg, Sense of History, Chap. 4; Ellis & McLane, New History of Documentary Film, Chap. 1 (ECR); Stubbs, Documentary Filmmakers Speak, Chap. 5 (ECR); Westinghouse Works films (Web); Edison Pan-American Exposition Films (Web); Cleveland documentaries at CriticalPast.com (Web) | Omeka Poster Comments Due | |
| 11 | Nov 9 | iMovie Training | Meet in Education Bldg. Mac Lab (Exact location TBD) | |
| Nov 11 | Veterans Day – No Class | |||
| 12 | Nov 16 | A Sense of Place: The Rise of Historic Preservation | Glassberg, Sense of History, Chap. 6; Howard, “Why Preservation Matters” & “The People of Preservation” (ECR) | |
| Nov 18 | Historic Preservation in Practice | National Register of Historic Places (Web); Souther, “Grant Deming’s Forest Hill Historic District,” NR Nomination (ECR) |
Interpretive Essay First Draft Due (Hard copy) | |
| 13 | Nov 23 | The National Park Service as a Public History Agency | Mackintosh, Parks and People, “Rehabilitation and Expansion” (Web); “Revision of the NPS’s Thematic Framework” (Web) | iMovies Due (on Blog) |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving Day – No Class | |||
| 14 | Nov 30 | The Culture Wars / Public History as Civic Engagement | Klein, “A Slavery Museum Negotiates the Treacherous Route to Funding” (Web); Rothstein, “Drawing Battle Lines in Museum View of War” (Web); Goldberger, “Historical Shows on Trial: Who Judges?” (Web); Rothstein, “America’s Attic, Ready for a Second Act” (Web); Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820-Present (Web); Abram, “Kitchen Conversations: Democracy in Action at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum” (ECR) | iMovie Comments Due (on Blog) |
| Dec 2 | Individual Project Consultations | By appointment in RT 1310, 12-5:30 p.m. | ||
| 15 | Dec 7 | Presentations | ||
| Dec 9 | Presentations | |||
| Dec 14 | Exam Period | Final Interpretive Essay (Electronic copy) & Final iMovies Due | ||
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