{"id":3298,"date":"2020-07-05T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T16:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locallinkdev.chnm.org\/?page_id=3298"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:43:24","slug":"guide-collaborative-and-thematic-primary-source-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/local-history-activity-guide\/guide-collaborative-and-thematic-primary-source-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: Collaborative and Thematic Primary Source Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can we learn about history in our community using primary sources?<\/p>\n<p>This activity has a great deal of flexibility built in to accommodate the items in your collection, as well as community interests.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Framing<\/span>: You might frame this activity around a heritage month (e.g., Hispanic Heritage Month, Women\u2019s History Month), or to commemorate a well-known event or tradition in your community (a parade or the opening of an important local institution). Using the framework of your choosing, you can pull a set of primary sources that participants can analyze and discuss.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Source types<\/span>: You may choose to pull documents across a variety of source types, or you may choose to pull multiple documents of the same source type; this might be determined by either the sources available in your collection, or you might want to introduce participants to a new source type (e.g., most researchers in your library tend to use newspapers, but you\u2019d like to introduce them to ledgers, oral histories, or maps in your collection).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sources you decide to use for this program will determine which analysis sheets you\u2019ll use. See the activity sheets that follow.<\/p>\n<p>Activity resource sheet: <a href=\"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrimarySource_ActivityResourceSheets.docx\">Primary Source Analysis (docx)<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrimarySource_ActivityResourceSheets.pdf\">Primary Source Analysis (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can we learn about history in our community using primary sources? This activity has a great deal of flexibility built in to accommodate the items in your collection, as well as community interests. Framing: You might frame this activity around a heritage month (e.g., Hispanic Heritage Month, Women\u2019s History Month), or to commemorate a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3280,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3298\/revisions\/3329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}