Women Matter, Facts Matter, History Matters: Or, Why I Started Teaching with Wikipedia

The author reports on a class project in the historiography of early modern women. She mentions the lack of content regarding women in the electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia, the work of the students in her early modern women's history class to create or edit additional biographies for women, an...

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Published in:The sixteenth century journal
Main Author: Strasser, Ulrike 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2019]
In: The sixteenth century journal
IxTheo Classification:FB Theological education
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Historiography
B RENAISSANCE women's history
B HISTORIOGRAPHY of women
B Wikipedia
B Early Modern History
B Electronic encyclopedias
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Summary:The author reports on a class project in the historiography of early modern women. She mentions the lack of content regarding women in the electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia, the work of the students in her early modern women's history class to create or edit additional biographies for women, and what the students learned about women, scholarship, and the excitement of the students.
ISSN:2326-0726
Contains:Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal