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Presenting Research with Timelines in Arthur Knight's Williamsburg Documentary Project Seminar

In a Nutshell

In this 400-level research seminar, students work on real-world documentary projects, interviewing members of the community and analyzing primary and secondary source documents. Each student develops their own individual research project within a particular historical location — in this current project, the Triangle area of Williamsburg — that, when taken as a whole, helps tell a richer story than individual projects might have done. Students collaborate to develop a multimedia web-accessible timeline incorporating videos, maps, photos, audio, and more to merge their individual, smaller stories into a broader, more complex exploration of this area.