ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Good midterms!
  • I’ve read and left suggestions in (copies of) all midterm papers submitted on Friday. If your midterm was submitted later, I’ll read it later.
  • Most common issues: citations, inclusive language, removal of section headers, thin analysis of BELOVED
  • Reminder about AI platforms: for privacy purposes, use Gemini (or no AI) for analyzing any recordings. Don’t use Claude, ChatGPT, etc, unless you want to pay for the platform and get reimbursed by NYU. Up-to-date AI tool status at the NYU AI tools page.
• Archival visit: shorter video requirement, e.g. 14 minutes + 16 images?
  • Archival video and images examples here

AGENDA

• Device time
  • News items will return on Wednesday
  • Announcements 
  • Primary research check-in + tips updates.
    • Reminders: Informed Consent form, backup plan, using AI, continue to copy me on correspondence
    • Coming soon: checklists for interviews and archival visits
      • Archival video and images examples here
  • Abolition walking tour orientation: the shoulders of giants!
    • Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America’s universities
      • “Among the founding trustees of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (1855) were… James Stranahan, a civil engineer who had planned the manufacturing town of Florence, NY, for the abolitionist Gerrit Smith. Charles Pratt’s oil refiner and the Havemeyer sugar works were driving a production revolution that transformed Brooklyn from a small town to an industrial city.”
    • Wunsch Hall
      • Wunsch Hall: A building steeped in history – NYU Tandon
      • NYU Student site on Wunsch Hall
      • Historic markers for Wunsch Hall and the Old Bridge Street Church
      • Marketing site: Remembering the Abolitionist History of DTBK
    • Abolitionist Place
      • Friends of Abolitionist Place
      • Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House
        • Landmark preservation document
      • Abolitionist Place – Downtown Brooklyn
      • Abolitionist Place | NYCEDC
      • My Brooklyn documentary
    • Duffield Street Houses
      • Duffield Street Houses landmark preservation document
      • Duffield Street Houses today(ish)
      • A skyscraper on top of the Duffield Street Houses?
    • Ida B. Wells historical marker
• Device-free time
  • Outdoor walking tour of local abolition & 1800s landmarks

ASSIGNMENT

You can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. I may ask you about it.

1. NEWS: Please share a relevant news item and be prepared to explain it.
2. READ and be prepared to discuss:
   • Sewing machinery : being a practical manual of the sewing machine, comprising its history and details of its construction, with full technical directions for the adjusting of sewing machines (Urquhart, 1881). Please read Chapter 1, History and Description of the Sewing Machine.
   • NYU Dentistry: Virtual Museum: History of Dentistry
   • Teachers College @ Columbia U: Ethics and the IRB: The History of the Belmont Report
3. REVIEW and be prepared to discuss:
   • Beloved up until “Stamp allowed that perch and catfish were jumping into the boat—didn’t even have to drop a line.” (The entirety of Beloved-Part05.mp3)
   • Any/all previous assignments
4. FOR DISCUSSION FACILITATORS leading the next session: email me the following by 1:30pm ET before the next class, as part of your discussion grade.
   • your 2-3 minute audio excerpt
   • 2-3 discussion questions on the Beloved and additional technology reading assignments