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Tell Your Family Story
Tackling Your Family History
Welcome (1:53)
Teacher Introduction (3:02)
Lecture: How to Put a Story into Its Context (2:55)
Assignment: Context
Lecture: What's Your Family Story? (1:16)
Assignment: Larger Family History
Reading: "My Papa's Waltz"
Lecture: The Smaller the Story, the Bigger It Is (4:59)
Assignment: Family photo
Lecture: How the Course Works (0:46)
Conclusion: What You're Doing Is Important (0:37)
Quiz: Story
Finding Your Subject and Scope
Introduction: Finding Your Subject and Scope (1:49)
Lecture: Identifying the Subject and the Scope (1:44)
Lecture: The Spark (2:24)
Assignment: Subject, Scope, Spark
Lecture: Let Your Spark Ignite Your Research (4:05)
Lecture: Let Your Spark Inspire You (2:07)
Lecture: Know Your Material and Know Yourself (2:34)
Reading: "Dead Man Laughing"
Lecture: Three Family Stories (1:46)
Project Assignment: 3 Stories
Conclusion: Family History is History (0:43)
Quiz: Preparation
Sources 1: Primary and Secondary Sources
Introduction: Primary and Secondary Sources (0:21)
Lecture: Genealogy (4:58)
Lecture: "The Truth" (2:38)
Assignment: Record a Story
Lecture: Primary Sources (5:03)
Lecture: Artifacts as Source Material (4:53)
Reading: "Inheritance"
Lecture: Secondary Sources (5:06)
Project Assignment: Primary and Secondary Sources
Conclusion: "The Truth" Again (0:45)
Quiz: Primary Sources
Sources 2: A Sense of Place
Introduction: Location, Location, Location (2:08)
Lecture: Being Inspired by a Place (6:15)
Reading & Assignment: A Sense of Place
Lecture: How Place Can Give Insight into Your Story (4:40)
Lecture: Location as Research (1:40)
Project Assignment: Visit a Place
Conclusion: Write About a Place (1:21)
Interviewing 101
Introduction: "People Are Trapped in History, and History Is Trapped in Them" (0:53)
Lecture: Can We Talk? (1:12)
Assignment: Interview Questions
Lecture: Record Your Interviews (2:06)
Lecture: Sometimes You Push, Sometimes You Let Them Talk (4:50)
Lecture: Listen (7:15)
Lecture: How the Mind Works (2:07)
Lecture: Tools for Jogging the Memory (1:24)
Extra Credit: Memory
Lecture: The Perfect Question (1:13)
Lecture: What Do You Do With This Information? (0:57)
Assignment: Transcribe
Lecture: Things Will Get Emotional (1:17)
Conclusion: Work Through the Hard Stuff (0:41)
Quiz: The Perfect Question
Beginnings, or How to Go from Research to Writing
Introduction: Beginnings, (0:42)
Lecture: When Are You Ready to Start Writing? (4:26)
Lecture: Find the Center of Your Story (2:27)
Lecture: We Are All Characters in a Story (2:52)
Lecture: Types of Beginnings (5:16)
Project Assignment: Beginnings
Project Assignment: Share
Conclusion: Don't Forget to Play (0:54)
The Middle, or How to Tell a Family Story
Introduction: The Middle (0:24)
Lecture: Find the Central Action of Your Story (6:05)
Lecture: Find the Key to a Person's Life in Your Research (5:13)
Lecture: Give People Their Complexity (5:48)
Project Assignment: Key Events
Reading: "The Beautiful Struggle"
Conclusion: Listen to Your Story (0:38)
How to Make History Come Alive
Introduction: How to Make History Come Alive (0:36)
Lecture: How to Get Personal (3:44)
Lecture: Solving Historical Puzzles (3:42)
Project Assignment: Make Your Project Come Alive
Lecture: Bringing a Moment of the Past Back to Life (4:55)
Conclusion: Finding Details and Stitching Them into a Narrative (0:37)
Changes and Drafts
Introduction: Changes and Drafts (0:31)
Lecture: Complications Are Good (6:50)
Project Assignment: Complications
Lecture: Some Family Members Won't Like Your Project (3:34)
Lecture: Time Can Help (1:59)
Project Assignment: Review
Conclusion: Remember Your Spark (0:40)
Quiz: Family
The End
Introduction: Endings (0:37)
Lecture: A Review of Wisdom (3:01)
Reading: This Be the Verse
Lecture: What an Ending Needs to Do (1:14)
Assignment: Ending
Lecture: An Ending (5:46)
Thank you! (0:40)
Final Assignment
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Project Assignment: Visit a Place
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