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• Title: Women's History Through Family History: A Variation on a Theme.
• Author : Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
• Release Date : January 22, 2005
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 190 KB

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The undergraduate family history project has become a standard assignment in survey courses around the country over the last twenty years--sometimes as an optional project and sometimes as a required assignment. This activity, which documents the lives of two or more generations of a family or evaluates a family member in light of a historical event, has become popular in part because it has several advantages over typical undergraduate research papers--it generates a high level of student interest, it is more difficult to plagiarize, it builds a deeper relationship between professors and their students, and it allows students to connect personally with the material presented in class. (1) In teaching a U.S. women's history course for undergraduate majors, I have modified this project to take advantage of these benefits, while at the same time using it to introduce higher-level research skills. (2) My assignment asks students to complete an eight-to-ten page research project that focuses on a woman from their family. They examine an important event or significant experience in the life of the woman and then compare their findings to the historical scholarship on the topic. For example, students can examine their grandmothers' activities during World War II and then compare those experiences with the historical literature that describes women during the war. To do this successfully, students must familiarize themselves with and engage secondary sources on their topics, work with primary sources, and develop critical thinking and writing skills.

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