Archives / Visual Argument (RESCHEDULED)

IMPORTANT: Note that this is a TUESDAY. This class meeting will be held from 7-9pm as we arranged. Location will be our usual room.

Also discussed in class: Digital archives, ethnographic film (briefly), documentary film, intellectual maps, visualizations in the history of ideas, historiography

Readings:

Birnbaum, Robert. (2003). Interview: Michael Lesy. identitytheory. http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum125.php

(1890-1910). Wisconsin Death Trip Photographs. Charles Van Schaick Archive , Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society. [N.B.: Please view ALL 140 of the photographs. It will take a while.] http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/sets/72157602476458793/

Ball, Duane E. (1974). Review: Wisconsin Death Trip. The Journal of Economic History, 34 (2): 509-510. On moodle

Stoffle, Richard W. & Dobyns, Henry F. (1974). Review: Wisconsin Death Trip. Ethnohistory 21 (2): 171-172. On moodle

Gutman, Judith Maria. (1973). Reading Pictures. Reviews in American History 1 (4): 488-492. On moodle

[The weekly assignment this week is due Thursday, not today. Scroll down for it.]

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