2: Primary Source Analysis
Choose up to two assignments from your archive that demonstrate the following History learning goal and link the files directly to this page, following the instructions at the bottom.
Distinguish and critically engage with primary sources.
Demonstrate familiarity with different types of primary sources (written sources, art, material artifacts, interviews etc.)
Demonstrate ability to ask questions (who, when, where, and why?) that are critical in the process of contextualizing and analyzing primary sources.
Demonstrate the ability to construct understandings of historical processes based on critical analysis of primary sources.
Use this portion of the page to:
introduce your work with a reflection and explain how/where it demonstrates that particular concept or skill. This might take you anywhere from a paragraph to a page. The whole paper need not be perfect and need not meet every last detail of the learning outcome.
analyze your own work’s shortcomings. This demonstrates the kind of higher order thinking we expect of History majors; we encourage you to be critical in your assessment.
explain what you did and what you might do differently, were you to do it again or take the project further in the future.