Public History Assignment

For this assignment you need to write a brief (3-4+) page paper in which you analyze one or more public history sites. Your sources should be either websites or the pamplets handed out in class. You should write a clear essay in which you expalin how this site is related to some of the themes of public history that we talked about. What you talk about will of course depend on what the site is trying to do. Here are some possibilities

-Trying to fix a historical event to a place
-Connecting a locality to a bigger story
-Encouraging local pride by emphasizing some unique oddity.
-Cashing in

This essay will require you to do some thinking about organization. All the writing you have done before for this class was tied pretty closely to the individual reading. In this one you will have to think a bit about what the main point of your essay is and make this clear in the introduction.

You may use as many sites as you want for this assignment. Two usually works well, since it is easy to do a comparison of two places.