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History 3023: War and Remembrance

Research Journal 1

Research Journal 1 Instructions

Due Thursday, 2.2.

You have now completed a series of readings on the work of cultural history, memory studies, and the politics of memory.

For your first (digital) Research Journal entry you will write an "explainer" piece for a general popular audience. Your explainer will be 750-1000 words (2-3 pages, double-spaced).

In it you will explain: 

1. What is cultural history? -- i.e. .1.1) What sort of work cultural historians do?  1.2) What sort of questions are they interested in asking?  1.3) give examples from specific works on the cultural history of war (with description of their questions and approaches)-- 2 scholarly books and 2 scholarly articles.

2. Include a bibliography of your four scholarly works in proper Chicago style. See below for examples

Examples:

Book-- 

Rousso, Henry, and Richard Joseph Golsan. Stalinism and Nazism : History and Memory Compared. European Horizons. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. https://dominican.on.worldcat.org/oclc/56713603

Article--

Chebotarova, Anna. 2020. “Memory and Military Conflict: Politics of History and Its Societal Perception in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine.” Euxeinos: Governance & Culture in the Black Sea Region 10 (29): 115–27. https://search-ebscohost-com.dominican.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=148249385&site=ehost-live