Just wanted to inform everyone about a current ENGL 131 assignment you might see at the desk. It's the "Handicapped by History" assignment (based on essay by James Loewen).
Here's our Course Guide:
There are a few sections using this assignment and it varies but here are the details on the one I worked with:
The instructor wants the students to find primary, secondary (including scholarly), and tertiary sources of an historical figure or event...to document and compare how the figure is portrayed/heroified/glorified/
villainized...so I based my session on this, working backwards, recommending that they review tertiary sources first.
For Tertiary:
Encyclopedias Tab
Find Books (See section on textbooks)
Secondary Sources:
Find Books (Note Children's books, thanks, Kathleen)
Find Articles (they do need a scholarly article)
Primary Sources:
Primary Sources by Type
Primary Sources by Region (United States)
Special Collections.
Carla let me know that we have strong collections of primary source materials of interest to the following topics available to the class:
Paul Robeson
Japanese-American Internment Camps of WW II
Black Panthers (Seattle activities)
The Wobblies
Hooverville (Seattle)
Spanish American War
Here's the full list of topics the students were given to choose from (in my section -- topics and requirements will vary for other sections):
Patriot Act and Patriot Act II Charlie Chaplin
Benjamin Franklin Malcolm X
Thomas Jefferson Paul Robeson
Alexander Hamilton Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, or Gould
James K. Polk The Bonus Army (WW I veterans)
The Boston Massacre Japanese-American Internment Camps of WW II
J. Edgar Hoover Henry Ford
Ronald Reagan Wounded Knee
John F. Kennedy Sand Creek Massacre
George Washington Nat Turner
Herbert Hoover The Wobblies
Eugene Debs John Steinbeck
Dropping of Atomic bombs Spanish-American War
Black Panthers Woodstock
Freedom Riders Bobby Seale
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