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This press release assignment is a planning assignment for the Digital Humanities Project and is part of your historiography research. You will use it as a stepping stone to your secondary source research and take a deep dive into one of your main sources for the case study project.

Instructions

1. Choose a secondary source or work(s) by a specific scholar had a significant impact on the scholarship about your topic. For example, Joan Wallach Scott’s pioneering 1986 article, “Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis” in the American Historical Review.
2. Write a press release around 500-800 words (notes not included). You may use any formats supported by Pressbooks and H5P. See this “Guide to Creating a Press Release on Pressbooks” for technical instructions.
3. Include your analysis of why this scholar and/or publication is important to the subdiscipline of protest history & which other subdiscipline(s) (or disciplines) it belongs to. Pitch it to a general audience.
4. Be sure to include the elements in the blue box in your press release and remember the sourcing and historical thinking skills outlined by the Stanford History Education Group at SHEG Chart

Inspiration for this assignment came from concluding comments by historian David Perry in Drafting the Past Episode 10, “David M. Perry Writes Out Loud.”

This assignment has been adapted from versions used in the Historical Thinking & Historiography OER: https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/historicalthinkingandhistoriography/chapter/press-release/