Thinking Through Primary Sources: HIST 168
In groups, investigate each primary source collection and answer:
- What is this collection? Whose is it, or who does these materials belong to?
- How could this collection (or its' contents) be used in research?
- What questions could be asked based on these primary sources? What questions could these primary sources help to answer?
- What needed to be done for these materials to be preserved and made available digitally?
- Look at how the collection as a whole has been described. Then, look at one item and inspect how it is described. What do these descriptive details tell you? Are there other ways that it could be described?
Note: You can answer things on the *collection level* i.e. each answer is about the entire collection. You don’t need to dissect each individual item.
