68 Introduction to Historical Methods OER Project
Summary of Project
Creation of an original, open educational resources (OER) for the History Department’s foundational undergraduate offering HIST 3300 “Introduction to Historical Research” plus the department’s UNIV 1101 offering (courses are tied together). A collaborative project utilizing the departmental faculty to produce chapters and sections leveraging Pressbooks with Canvas and other apps such as Hypothes.is ,embedded videos, and interactive assignments and activities. This OER will fill a gap in available open materials for Historical Methods (there are no OER available) and chapters/sections of this OER textbook will also be used throughout the History curriculum, from freshman US History surveys (core courses) to graduate level courses.
Project Team
- Kim Breuer, editor
- Scott W. Palmer, editor
- GRA
- Faculty Authors
![A miniature illustration from the 1409 AD illuminated manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles); it depicts Mark Antony and Cleopatra in their tomb, with an asp slithering near her chest, and a bloody sword impaling his chest. Their figures are depicted as both dead bodies and as statues in a medieval Gothic environment rather than an ancient Hellenistic-period Ptolemaic-Egyptian setting. For further information see pp. 53-54 of Anderson, Jaynie (2003) Tiepolo's Cleopatra[1], Melbourne: Macmillan, ISBN 9781876832445](https://uta.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4/2019/05/584px-Tomb_of_Cleopatra_and_Mark_Antony_illuminated_manuscript_of_Boccaccio_miniature_by_the_Boucicaut_master_1409_AD-195x300.jpg)
