WAR:
1945 - 1960
PROJECT #2 IDEAS
STEP 1 conduct enough research to understand your art form and artists and to present them in a clear and compelling manner.
STEP 2 identify a key primary source (or sources) related to your area of research: song lyrics, poem, artwork, audio or video performance. You will share the primary source with your classmates during the presentation in order to help them understand the relationship between the artists and the era.
REMEMBER! Explore the significance of these art forms and artists and how they help us to understand the post-war decade: 1945-1960.
LIBRARY SOURCES
ARTSTOR* (requires a first time use registration on campus)
EBSCO discovery (for analysis of art and artworks)
EBOOK: Cultural Considerations - Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America (Introduction)
WEBSITES / PRIMARY SOURCES
MET: POST WAR PRINT RENAISSANCE
DPLA: POST WAR AMERICA (look for categories like pop art or use search)
MUSIC: "I HAVE SUNG IN HOBO JUNGLES..."
MUSIC: "I DON'T SOUND LIKE NOBODY: REMAKING MUSIC IN 1950s AMERICA".
DON't FORGET
REMEMBER: You need to cite your sources in Chicago style, the standard for history papers. Here are the citation managers we have available.
PROJECT #1 IDEAS
Explore the significance of the topics/events and primary source and how they help us to understand the post-war decade: 1945 - 1960
STEP 1 conduct enough research to understand your assigned topics/events and to present them in a clear and compelling manner to your classmates.
STEP 2 identify a key primary source related to your area of research. You will share the primary source with your classmates and will lead a class discussion/activity focused on this primary source.
SEARCH TIPS + DON'T Forgets
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quotes around a search term keeps terms together; search engine won't search for each term separately (ex. "cold war")
~
tilda's before search terms search for like terms (ex. ~cold war will search for cold war, cold wars, and other related terms....)
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REMEMBER: You need to cite your sources in Chicago style, the standard for history papers. Here are the citation managers we have available.