This document will be shared with your faculty advisor and should form the basic foundation for your subsequent thesis. We will be working as part of a mutli-university project involving students at the University of Kansas and at DePauw University to do preliminary annotation of the materials. You will be given a section of the materials. The sections are arranged by the years in which the diary was kept, beginning with 1860. You will probably be given a section of about one year.
Some years are, of course, more eventful than others.
You will be asked to go the library and the Internet to find out as much about your section of the document as possible. You will be asked to annotate it in both hard copy and in e-copy. Your annotations will be placed upon the web . Your assignment will take the form of a written paper which will be keyed to the pages of the document upon which you are working. You will write an introduction to your materials, and a conclusion, as well as providing a bibliography of useful sources.