HIST 9 - Historical Methods: Global Histories of Sugar (Schmidt, Winter 2024): Home

Image source: The National Archives, via AM Global Commodities database

Your assignment is to use both primary and secondary sources to complete a project in which you explore the global history of sugar in one of the below Historian Personas. Each project requires an annotated bibliography of 5 sources.

• Historian:  Write a 1500-word research paper, posing and answering an historical question
• Digital Humanist:  Create a 10 minute video, blog, website, or other digital project relevant to the course
• Teacher:  Create a 10 minute podcast or video with accompanying PowerPoint to teach some aspect of the course to high school or college students
• Museum Curator:  Curate a museum exhibit of 5 items relevant to some topic in Food Studies