Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Historical Detective Work and Information Literacy




Is it real, or is it Memorex?

Henry Ford once famously said that history is bunk.  During the Fall 2020 semester, Professor Chris Dalton is taking on that charge in History 106:  The Art of Historical Detection.  Students will apply historical methods to exam bunk history.  In this age of fake news, misinformation, and deep fakes, determining what is real is a valuable skill.  How do we tell what is real?  Some might call it information literacy, we call it debunking.


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