Defending the family altar : gender, race, and family politics in the America First movement, 1940-1945

i, 150 leaves ; 29 cm

Digital Storytelling Assignment

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: A professor of United States history, Laura McEnaney, in collaboration with Sonia Chaidez and Kathy Filatreau, adapted StoryCenter’s digital storytelling framework to develop a critical, self-reflexive multimedia course assignment for a gender studies and history course on the modern family. This assignment asks students to connect course content (around courtship, marriage, and birthing practices) to personal experience and to produce a critical video essay. An exercise in research, contextualization, feedback, and revision, this project can be adapted to produce content for archival projects, oral history projects, museum exhibits, or other community-based digital collections. It is included here because of its potential value in creating a nonhierarchical, democratic feminist classroom, accomplished through feedback sessions or story circles