Task:

A local sport organization has contacted you because many of their members want to learn more about the history of sport at Georgia Tech. Your job is to create a clearly written and accessible report for this organization based on your research at the GT Archives. You will work in groups of 2. In order to ensure that everyone in the class has access to enough primary source material, you and your partner will work on a topic from a list provided by the instructor.

This assignment has 4 components:

1) Use 2-3 pages to present an Overview and Summary of your key findings. Introduce and explain important people, events, social trends, construction projects, or themes that you have uncovered in your research. Make your historical narrative compelling to a general audience by providing details or stories that are thought-provoking to you as a researcher.

2) Use 1 page to create a Timeline that further explores how events unfolding at Georgia Tech were shaped by the broader historical, economic, and political forces unfolding at the time (e.g. desegregation, WWII, Title IX). The focus of your timeline should be one that best explains your topic. Please use 1-2 full sentence descriptions for each historical event you highlight. The strongest assignments will make clear and convincing links about how the wider social context shaped ideas, attitudes, policies, and sporting practices at Georgia Tech.

3) Use 1 page to state the Historical Significance of your topic and archival research. Show why the community group should be interested in learning more about your topic by linking your findings to current events or social problems that you see around at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, or in U.S. society.

4) Use 1 page to create an annotated list of Further Readings and Resources for the community group. The list must be composed of 2 scholarly journal article drawn from the Journal of Sport History (see www.la84.org/sports-library-digital-collection). Please summarize the article (in approximately 250 words) and explain the article’s relevance to the community group and the topic under investigation.

Format:

5-6 single-sided, double-spaced pages in 12 point Times New Roman, with one-inch margins on all sides. The formatting requirements for the (2) Timeline are more flexible. Use formatting options (e.g. fonts, size, colours, visuals, etc.) that best help to explain your topic. Throughout the report, you may use relevant photographs that you find in the archives. Please make sure to create a caption that summarizes the significance of any photograph you use. Please number your pages and attach them together with a staple. Please include a title page with: the course code, the instructor’s name, date of submission, and the name and student numbers of all group members. Please upload an electronic copy on to Canvas before class and bring a hard copy to the beginning of class.