World History Journal WEEK 2

How to Read Primary Sources? (and a comment about the related assignments) History 111 – World History since 1500

Spring 2022

Jorge Minella ([email protected])

Reading Primary Sources

 “Stuff” produced in the past by people from the past.

 Tell things from the past.

 How to read? What to ask?

 Historical imagination, study, some common sense.

The Primary Source Assignments

 Four sets of historical documents.

 Assignments.  Collective annotation on Perusall.  Final essay about one of the sets.

 How historians work.

 Autonomy.

PAPER

 Purpose of the primary source’s author.

 Argument and strategy.

 Presuppositions and values.

 Epistemology.

 Relate to Other texts.

Collective Annotation - Perusall