Tackling Your Family History
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Welcome (1:53)
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Teacher Introduction (3:02)
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Lecture: How to Put a Story into Its Context (2:55)
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Assignment: Context
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Lecture: What's Your Family Story? (1:16)
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Assignment: Larger Family History
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Reading: "My Papa's Waltz"
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Lecture: The Smaller the Story, the Bigger It Is (4:59)
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Assignment: Family photo
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Lecture: How the Course Works (0:46)
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Conclusion: What You're Doing Is Important (0:37)
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Quiz: Story
Finding Your Subject and Scope
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Introduction: Finding Your Subject and Scope (1:49)
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Lecture: Identifying the Subject and the Scope (1:44)
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Lecture: The Spark (2:24)
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Assignment: Subject, Scope, Spark
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Lecture: Let Your Spark Ignite Your Research (4:05)
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Lecture: Let Your Spark Inspire You (2:07)
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Lecture: Know Your Material and Know Yourself (2:34)
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Reading: "Dead Man Laughing"
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Lecture: Three Family Stories (1:46)
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Project Assignment: 3 Stories
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Conclusion: Family History is History (0:43)
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Quiz: Preparation
Sources 1: Primary and Secondary Sources
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Introduction: Primary and Secondary Sources (0:21)
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Lecture: Genealogy (4:58)
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Lecture: "The Truth" (2:38)
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Assignment: Record a Story
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Lecture: Primary Sources (5:03)
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Lecture: Artifacts as Source Material (4:53)
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Reading: "Inheritance"
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Lecture: Secondary Sources (5:06)
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Project Assignment: Primary and Secondary Sources
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Conclusion: "The Truth" Again (0:45)
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Quiz: Primary Sources
Sources 2: A Sense of Place
Interviewing 101
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Introduction: "People Are Trapped in History, and History Is Trapped in Them" (0:53)
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Lecture: Can We Talk? (1:12)
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Assignment: Interview Questions
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Lecture: Record Your Interviews (2:06)
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Lecture: Sometimes You Push, Sometimes You Let Them Talk (4:50)
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Lecture: Listen (7:15)
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Lecture: How the Mind Works (2:07)
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Lecture: Tools for Jogging the Memory (1:24)
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Extra Credit: Memory
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Lecture: The Perfect Question (1:13)
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Lecture: What Do You Do With This Information? (0:57)
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Assignment: Transcribe
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Lecture: Things Will Get Emotional (1:17)
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Conclusion: Work Through the Hard Stuff (0:41)
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Quiz: The Perfect Question
Beginnings, or How to Go from Research to Writing
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Introduction: Beginnings, (0:42)
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Lecture: When Are You Ready to Start Writing? (4:26)
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Lecture: Find the Center of Your Story (2:27)
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Lecture: We Are All Characters in a Story (2:52)
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Lecture: Types of Beginnings (5:16)
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Project Assignment: Beginnings
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Project Assignment: Share
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Conclusion: Don't Forget to Play (0:54)
The Middle, or How to Tell a Family Story
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Introduction: The Middle (0:24)
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Lecture: Find the Central Action of Your Story (6:05)
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Lecture: Find the Key to a Person's Life in Your Research (5:13)
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Lecture: Give People Their Complexity (5:48)
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Project Assignment: Key Events
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Reading: "The Beautiful Struggle"
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Conclusion: Listen to Your Story (0:38)
How to Make History Come Alive
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Introduction: How to Make History Come Alive (0:36)
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Lecture: How to Get Personal (3:44)
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Lecture: Solving Historical Puzzles (3:42)
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Project Assignment: Make Your Project Come Alive
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Lecture: Bringing a Moment of the Past Back to Life (4:55)
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Conclusion: Finding Details and Stitching Them into a Narrative (0:37)
Changes and Drafts
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