Assignment: This semester we have listened to and learned about the West from a number of podcasts. Now it’s your turn! Using one of the objects listed below, online lecture/s, and Ways of the World construct the scriipt for a podcast discussing an 18th-century revolution. The audience for this podcast is NOT historians nor history students, but men and women with an interest in learning more about the revolution. How will you grab their attention and keep them interested while still educating them?
Instructions:
Choose one of the following revolutions as your topic – French, American, Haitian. Describe the revolution using the object and the resources. You decide what persons, places, and events to discuss, so long as you incorporate the selected object as evidence. (Do not simply describe the object.)
Podcast should also incorporate a descriiption of the object into the narrative.
Script should be in the form of a series of short paragraphs and contain a clear organizational structure.
Have fun!
Include “talking heads” (real or imagined) in the podcast.
Give the podcast a catchy title.
Students should submit a podcast scriipt – HOWEVER, if you want to get more creative, go for it!
Objects:
“Letter to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent Signed by Toussaint Louverture” (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
“Betsy Bucklin’s Sampler” (National Museum of American History)
“République Française Liberté Égalité” (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
