Schedule for Feb 16

For next week (February 16) here is what we will be doing in class (email me with any questions):

1. Further discussion of your biography selections. You should have one chosen and should be thinking about your second one.

2.We will talk about historiographies and annotated bibliographies

3. We will talk about biography films and movies.

4. Read the following articles and be ready to discuss them in class. Also, reflect upon/analyze these articles (and the ANB bios) in your Journal. Send that Journal to me before class on Wednesday.

biographers panel discussion (1 hour)

McCullough interview (55 minutes)

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/1975
Evan Thomas interview (25 minutes)

"Christopher Columbus in United States Historiography: Biography as Projection"
Carla Rahn Phillips, William D. Phillips
The History Teacher Vol. 25, No. 2 (Feb., 1992), pp. 119-135
Published by: Society for History Education
http://www.jstor.org/stable/494269
* On this article, when it comes to the screen, you will need to select "check access options" and then find Concordia University, St.Paul. That should get you to our JSTOR library page. It might take a little work, but do it.

"Separations of Soul: Solitude, Biography, History:
Barbara Taylor
American Historical Review, Jun2009, Vol. 114 Issue 3, pp.640-651
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Writing Biography at the Edge of History
Robin Fleming
American Historical Review, Jun2009, Vol. 114 Issue 3, pp.606-614
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