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This assignment for students in a History course at James Madison University helps students become personally engaged with history and is part of a process of “de-textbook-izing” history in the college classroom.
by Elaine Kaye, Nicole Wilson, and Kristen McCleary (James Madison University)
This assignment and its accompanying scaffolded tasks, asks students to practice social history by conducting an interview with someone related to social change in the 20th and 21st centuries. Most students interview someone related to the following themes: the Cold War, gender, immigration, education, and the workplace. Students learn the technology to conduct the interview, the best practices of oral history interviewing, how to edit and transcribe the interviews. They will also analyze these interviews to discern patterns of social change in themes of their choosing.
*This Assignment is connected to the Student Work Product found in Emotional Histories: Social Change Interviews.*
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