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HIST 498B Prof.
James Gregory |
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Students in
this class will participate in a set of historical research projects that are
documenting the history of social justice activism in the The
University of Washington History Department is home to a set of online public
history projects that examine this history and make it available to the
public. Used by more than one million online visitors, these website projects
are also taught in high school and college classrooms throughout the region.
Students in earlier HIST 498 seminars have been involved in producing these
projects. Some have had their research papers published, others have helped
with the oral history interviews. Here are the principal projects: ·
Seattle Civil Rights and
Labor History Project ·
Seattle
General Strike Project ·
Communism in
Washington State - History and Memory Project Two new projects will be
launched this year: ·
Waterfront Workers History Project ·
Pacific Northwest Antiwar and
Radical History Project General
method of instruction This seminar
is a hands-on historical research project. We will not only read about the
history of civil rights, labor, and antiwar movements, we will also be
producing historical materials and interpretations that will be valuable to
others interested in this subject. There are three major assignments: (1)
help conduct at least one oral history interview with a veteran of one of SCHEDULE Sept 30: introductions; look over the list of Possible Topics
on the hist 498b website; Oct 7:
Quintard Taylor, The
Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through
the Civil Rights Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994),
Ch6 pp.159-240 Jonathan
Dembo, Unions and Politics in
Washington State 1885-1935 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1983),
pp.537-622 Examine the Seattle Civil Rights and
Labor History Project website “Research Reports” to get a sense of what
students in other 498s have done. www.civilrights.washington.edu Oct 14: Bob Santos, Humbows, Not Hot Dogs! Memoirs of a Savvy
Asian American Activist (International Examiner Press, 2002), 40-86 Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A
Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (University of Washington Press, 1996)
ch.7-9 Due
in class: one page description of your research topic. Oct 21:
Locate and read two secondary sources and at least one primary source In class: Report on project sources. What
are you using? Oct 28: In class: how to conduct interviews Nov 4: TBA Nov 11: TBA; Nov 18: no class but draft of essay due Nov 25, Dec 2: TBA Final paper due Friday Dec 5 |
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