James Halabuk
Assignment #4 (Proposal for Project Proposal)
Having
surveyed many of the internet sites that deal with the Cuban Revolution,
it is my sense that those sites tend to fall into one of three categories:
(1) sites that attempt to defend the Revolution; (2) sites that attempt
to condemn it; and (3) sites that provide either a chronological overview
of the events of the Revolution or short bigraphies of its key players
(an exception would be the NSA site, which has collected documents from
the U.S. government). It occurs to me, then, that I could put together
a proposal for a site that does none of those things: there is clearly
room in the discipline for a site that collects some documents, provides
some interpetation, explains both causes and consequences of the Revolution,
offers graphical or multimedia (i.e. sound files) elements, while remaining
nominally detached. I think the workload is reasonably within semester
constraints, I think there is a noticeable gap in the scholarly coverage
of the Cuban Revolution, and I think it would make a fine project for
this class (HIST 696) as well as the next (HIST 697).
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HIST 696,
Clio Wired: An Introduction to History and New Media
HIST 697,
Creating Digital History