A primary source analysis: The Massachusetts 54th

Primary Source Analysis: The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

Primary Source Analysis: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Here is my presentation on the primary source "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs.


Works Cited:

The Journal of the Grand Council of South Carolina: a Primary Source Analysis

Below is my final project on the process of the Grand Council of South Carolina and what events led them to conclude at enslavement as a solution to the perpetual attacks from Natives.




Bibliography:

Hanging indents on Google Docs

A question came up about using Google Docs to properly format a bibliography, and in particular, how to set up hanging indents. After a bit of scouring, I found the following tutorial video that I hope proves helpful.

Google Docs Hanging Indent from Steve Weller on Vimeo.

An alternative approach is to create the document in Word and them import it into Google Docs with "Conversion On." This method will turn the .doc file into a Google Document and preserve the formatting.

Sample Structure for Final Project Posts

As all of you work on researching and then putting together your primary source analyses for the final project, I wanted to make a sample post to give you a sense of how to set up these final blog posts by including an embedded video file and a Chicago Style Bibliography.

So, to be super-meta about it, I've made this video to walk you through putting up this post. Check it out here:


After you embed your video, you'll need to embed your Chicago Style Bibliography. I encourage you to make your Bibliography in Google Docs, which will easily allow you to then embed the code in a post. As indicated in the video, you'll go to the HTML tab in the composition field and then paste the "embed code" that Google Docs generates once you choose to "publish to the web" in a document. Here's what the will then look like:

Please let me know if you have any questions and I'll look forward to listening to and learning from your analyses. Remember, this final post is DUE by Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 3:00 pm MDT.

Self-Reflection and Course Feedback

In class today (Nov. 19) we'l spend the last part of class reflecting on the course and offering some constructive feedback in terms of class structure, assignments, etc. Please write a comment that addresses the following two questions: 1. What have you learned from this class? What have been your areas of greatest challenge and intellectual growth during this trimester? 2. What constructive feedback/suggestions do you have for the class?