What is HISTORY?

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

History is the record of events from our past. We like to know what happened. We like to know who was involved. We like to know where it happened. Good record keeping means good history.

Landing at Plymouth Rock
Exploring the Americas
Sailing around the world
Orville and Wilbur who?
San Francisco crumbles
The Windy City and a famous cow
OK, where did that crack come from?

Each of these tag lines suggest that something BIG has happened. Something did happen. There are lots of details to uncover - and as a Historian, it’s your job to find em and share them with the rest of the world.

Your assignment is to pick one of the tag lines, that you think you know NOTHING about and start collecting information. You can google the entire tag line and will find enough to get started. You have to a) write down your sources; and b) write a 2-3 page story explaining the details of the historic event.

You can listen and comment on the microlecture at VOXOPOP

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