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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

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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