Lost City Cahokia Central Historical Narrative Arts and Culture Project

Lost City Cahokia Central Historical Narrative Arts and Culture Project

The City we have for this project is Cahokia

I. Introductory Overview (100 words):

Define the topic and temporal scope of your project.Introduce your reader to your city, situate the city in the larger historical context, and explain what your reader will discover by exploring your digital gazetteer. This text should appear either on the main homepage or at the beginning of your digital historical exhibits. You can model your introduction after a modern travel guide, historical gazetteer, or even a formal essay. Make an argument about why your historical time period is critical to understanding the history of your city.

II. People (100-250 words):

Introduce your reader to the demographics of your city during the time period you survey. Describe the different groups of people who reside in your city. What are the dominant religious and ethnic groups? What are the major occupations and income levels? Are these groups in conflict or do the coexist peacefully?

III. Central Historical Narrative (750 – 1000 words):

With attention to key events and their significance to the development of your city. This brief history should be more than an extended chronology, you should strive to tell a compelling story that serves as a point of departure for exploring the digital elements of your project.

IV. Key Places (250-500 words):

These destinations must be related to your central historical narrative Alternatively, you can embed this in-depth narrative in your interactive map if you want to make this text part of the map tour.

Remember to pay attention to historical accuracy. For example, if you are writing a travel guide for ancient Rome, you should include sites that would have been there in antiquity, such as the Colosseum. But you should exclude later buildings like the Sistine Chapel.

V. Arts and Culture (150-250 words):

Provide interpretive text that introduces your audience to your living artwork featured in your City. Provide broader historical context, introduce the key players, and major artistic movements in your city.

VI. Sports and Entertainment (150-250 words):

Expand on your City Podcast by writing up a brief description of popular sports in your city during a particular historical era. Your write-up should give your audience a preview of what they can expect from listening to your podcast.

Describing popular eateries, social customs, and other diversions from the work-a-day pace of urban life in a particular historical era. Even in periods of warfare and social strife, urban populations still needed to eat and find recreational outlets. So these narratives should tie these aspects of urban life into your central historical narrative.

VII. Connections to Other Cities (100-250 words):

Throughout this course, we saw how cities are interconnected to each other through trade, ideas, transportation, and migrations. Throughout this quarter, you will learn about other cities by commenting on your classmates’s work. Your final digital portfolio should provide links to at least three of your classmates’ projects, with a brief explanation as to how your cities have intersecting and interconnected histories.

VII. Works Cited

Your City Project Website must incorporate a works cited page, listing all of the primary and secondary you used to build your digital portfolio. All citations must be in the Chicago/Turabian format.