History 696: Web History Scavenger Hunt

You have thirty minutes for this scavenger hunt and you should move sequentially through the list. If you wish, you can "pass" on an item if you find yourself stuck for ten minutes. After you find as many items as you can, you should post both the locations of the items and how you found them to on your blog by next Tuesday (day after Labor Day). (Don't look at other answers until you have done the assignment yourself.) This is a fun exercise to learn about searching and there are some tricky items on the list.

Keep to the thirty minute time limit; there will be a prize for anyone who gets them all correct in the time allocated.

1. A recording of Leon Trotsky speaking in English.

2. 1915 suffrage poem with the line: When all the women wanted it.

3. A letter from George Washington to Timothy Pickering in which Washington complains about "certain forged letters" intended to wound his character and "deceive the people."

4. An 18th century speech by Willie Lynch telling Virginia slave owners how to keep slaves in line.

5. An online debate over whether the 1962 Cuban crisis would have been different if Kruschev had sent a fair sized contingent of Russian troops instead of missiles.

6. A complete version of "Annual Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, 1993" in The Economic History Review by Roger Middleton and Peter Wardley (one of first publications for historians to talk about Internet).

7. Four syllabi for courses that include Hamlet on the Holodeck by Janet Murray.

8. The home page for the Center for History & New Media as it looked in 1998.

9. A picture of Janet Murray together with the Sims.


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