<h1 id="week-eleven-nov-10-2025"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#week-eleven-nov-10-2025"></a>Week Eleven: Nov. 10, 2025.</h1>
<h3 id="authority-and-positionality-in-your-digital-research-deconstructing-the-historical-self"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#authority-and-positionality-in-your-digital-research-deconstructing-the-historical-self"></a>Authority and Positionality in Your Digital Research: Deconstructing the Historical Self</h3>
A Note on This Week's Pacing: This is one of the most reading-intensive weeks of the course, and that is by design. There is a method to the madness. We are deliberately front-loading the deep theoretical work on how history is produced and silenced. Grappling with these complex ideas now is the essential foundation you will need before you begin the practical act of writing your own historical narrative next week. By internalizing this critical framework first, you will be equipped to write a more thoughtful, self-aware, and impactful final project. Our focus will soon shift from theory to application.
Key Learning Goals: By the end of this module, students will be able to:
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<li>Critically analyze how power and positionality shape the production of history.</li>
<li>Apply the concepts of 'Positionality', 'Authority', and 'the Subaltern' to the design and structure of their own historical narrative.</li>
<li>Create a theoretically-informed visual outline for their final project using Canvas.</li>
<li>Articulate how their narrative and structural choices will impact the public reception of their Open-Access Notebook.</li>
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<h3 id="checklist-for-week-11"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#checklist-for-week-11"></a>Checklist for Week 11:</h3>
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[ ] The Conceptual Framework (Readings):
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<li>Required Readings:
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<li>Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. (2015). "The Power in the Story" from Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, pp. 1-30.</li>
<li>Risam, Roopika. (2018). "Introduction" in New digital worlds: Postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy, pp. 3-22.</li>
<li>Hartman, Saidiya. (2019). "An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History." The New Yorker.</li>
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[ ] The Core Workflow: Processing the Readings:
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<li>For each of the two required readings (Trouillot and Risam), create one (1) literature note and three (3) atomic notes. Weave these into your vault. This theoretical grounding is the essential first step for this week.</li>
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[ ] The Main Activity: Architecting Your Narrative:
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<li>Your main task this week is to design the blueprint for your final paper.</li>
<li>Create a new Canvas file in your vault titled "[Your Historical Topic Here] Narrative Outline."</li>
<li>Create a visual flowchart for your 1000-1200 word Exit Ticket reflection. Your canvas must include cards for your introduction/thesis, your main supporting arguments, and your conclusion. As you design your outline, you are making choices. Drag and drop the specific notes from your vault that you will use as evidence for each section. What you choose to include, what you choose to exclude, and the sequence in which you present your arguments will define your narrative.</li>
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[ ] Situating Your Outline: From Canvas to the Public Web:
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<li>The Canvas you are creating is not just an outline; it is the architectural plan for your public-facing Open-Access Notebook. The structure you design on this canvas—the flow from one idea to the next, the evidence you prioritize—will directly inform how a public audience navigates your research and understands your argument. The theoretical choices you make this week will have a practical impact on your final digital output.</li>
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[ ] Weekly Reflection (Ungraded):
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<li>This is a crucial reflection. In a new journal entry, analyze the Canvas outline you just created through the lens of this week's readings. Your reflection must address the following:
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<li>How did you consider your own positionality when deciding on the main argument and structure of your narrative?</li>
<li>Look at the evidence you chose to include on your canvas. How will you use these specific sources to build authority with your intended audience?</li>
<li>What stories or perspectives have become subaltern (marginalized or silenced) as a result of the narrative structure you have chosen? How might you acknowledge these silences in your final project?</li>
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Welcome

1. Course Description

2. Learning Outcomes

3. Course Schedule

4. Evaluation

5. Course Communications

6. Common Regulations

6. Contact the Professor

how the course tech is built; how the course came to be

7. Colophon

8. Reuse

Orientation and Digital Setup

Week 1

Personal Knowledge Management and Linked Thinking

Week 2

Thinking about the “Craft” of Digital History

Week 3

Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

Week 4

Consolidation & Check-In Week

Week 5

Digital Excavation

Week 6

Defining Data, 'Dark' Data, & Identifiers

Week 7

Fall Break

Week 8

Seeing the Past?

Week 9

Week 10

Authority and Positionality in Your Digital Research

Week 11

Publicly Crafting a Historical Argument

Week 12

Open-Access Notebook Workshop

Week 13

Exit Ticket

Week 14

1 Setting up your vault

2 Create your first note

3 Templater Plugiin

4 What Goes into a Note?

5 Properties

Hypothesis

The Simplest Online Memex Worfklow

How To Read An Academic Article

FAQ for Common Tech Issues

Where to Find help

Text Formatting

Introduction to your vault

index note

Atomic Note

Literature Note

Process Note

Weekly Journal

Topic Proposal

Weekly Work & Tasks

Consolidation Reflection

Open Access Notebook/Memex

Benchmarking Your Memex

Exit Ticket/Final Project

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History Transcript

2 Obsidian User Interface (UI) Guide

3 Templater and Hotkeys Setup

4 How to use PDF++

5 Canvas Core Plugin Introductory Tutorial

6 Hypothes.is and Annotating the Web

7 Omnisearch Plugin for Obsidian

8 How to Use Process Notes for Digital Research Projects in Obsidian

9 Properties, Identifiers and Data Management with Obsidian Core Plugin Bases

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History

2 Some Logistical Updates

3 Welcome to Week Two

4 What is Digital History?

5 Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

6 Week Four Exercise Example

7 Using Obsidian for Digital History Research and Note-Making

8 Reflection Feedback Update and Hypothes.is

9 Week Five Update

10 Consolidation Reflection Submission

11 Module Two Wrangling and Critiquing

12 Week 7 Update

13 Week 9 Welcome Back

14 Consolidation Week Number 2

1. Course Overview

Module 1 Contextualizing

Module 2 Wrangling & Critiquing

Module 3 Arguing & Communicating

2. Schedule

01  memex help

8. Course Files

3. Tutorials

4. Assessment

5. VideoTutorials

Crafting Digital History

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