Prompt: Considering the readings so far and your own learning interests, form a research question. Think about how you would locate primary, historical sources that might begin to help you answer that question. How might your findings cause you to reframe your question? What can you reasonably answer with the materials available? What materials would […]
Hello! I’m Bruno Freitas, I’m a freshmen at Knox. My pronouns are him/his. My majors are Theatre and Africana Studies! I chose Digital History, because I believe that it will be extremely useful not only for my current moment of life, but also for my education as a whole. Sometimes, we think that we have
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I was really into the conversation we had on Thursday about FourDirectionsTeaching.com and the idea that the land of the internet, just like physical land, is at risk of being colonized and turned into a means of capital. The intentions of Four Directions are for the absolute good of the people and were created alongside
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Considering the readings so far and your own learning interests, form a research question. Think about how you would locate primary, historical sources that might begin to help you answer that question. How might your findings cause you to reframe your question? What can you reasonably answer with the materials available? What materials would you
Hello, my name is Rukhsora Orifova, I use she/her pronouns. I am a junior majoring in Anthropology and Sociology with a minor in English Literature. Looking through the course schedule, I find learning about the history of the Indigenous community very exciting. I have not taken many classes that dedicate their classes to the history
Research is an ironically personal thing; it’s so specific to each person and how their brain works best. Do they need to make a whole list of questions and work their way systematically through the information? Do they start specific and work their way outwards or do they do the opposite? Or do they need
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My name is Vanessa Jackson, and I use she/they pronouns. I’m a double major in Political Science and Africana Studies. As a Political Science and Africana Studies major, I’m often examining history; specifically, American history and, in contrast, the history of Black people across the diaspora. Of course, those two aspects of history are starkly
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Hey! My name is Annemarie Christiansen and I’m a History and Spanish major here at Knox. I have two dogs (Hazel, a chocolate labradoodle, and Dolly, a black and white sheepadoodle), and two leopard geckos (named Winston and Marvin), along with an older sibling and a younger sibling. I love to cook, read, go outside,
My name is Tony Perez and I joined this class to uncover how technology can be used to improve the way history is looked at. I’m a sixth year student with a major in history. I took classes on history before including two classes on Native American history with Cate Denial along with her reproductive
Hey all! My name is Lua and I use she/her pronouns. I’m a senior with an ANSO major and a self-designed minor in information sciences. I chose this class as a requirement for my minor because the digitization of history is a huge topic in library/information sciences right now and I’m really excited to learn
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