Hello Fellows!

Thanks for a great class with Dr. Sackley today. As you remember, she left us with a mini-assignment: to think about how we might turn the enormous amount of information that exists on The Great Migration into a research project and paper.

(Obviously, this will be a very useful exercise as you think about how you’re going to narrow and focus the projects you’ll be working on this summer …)

After you’ve read the second half of the documents for Tuesday’s class (the link to the specifically assigned readings/pages can be found here — scroll down to February 14th and 19th), please do the following:

  1. Think of a particular person, event, theme, or question that you might make an effective research topic.
  2. Write it up in a sentence or two.
  3. Using the Historical Newspapers database and the archive of The Crisis, find one or two sources that you might use in. Read those sources to make sure that they will be useful and then a copy that we can look at in class.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.Next!

Have a great weekend!

~ AC