Week One Class Readings, Exercises, and Assignments

Week 1 (9/1-9/5)

For Monday’s class:

  • Complete Blog Exercise, “On Considering the Digital”
  • Read your classmates’ blog posts.

In Monday’s class:

  • Blog exercise discussion and review

For Wednesday’s Class:

  • View The Civil War, episode 1 (streaming video available in course Moodle site)

In Wednesday’s Class:

  • Discussion of documentary
  • Introduction to transcription, part 1

For Friday’s class:

  • Read the Robert Bonner Introduction to The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War. (available on this site via “Assigned Readings” link – this page is password protected, so you will need the password in order to access the readings.)

In Friday’s Class:

  • Discussion of reading
  • Introduction to transcription, part 2

Assignment due:

  • Blog #1, “On Material and Digital Archives” (by 11pm)