Finding your Historical Artifact

For this assignment you will pretend to be a curator creating a digital exhibit on queer identity and queer style. You will need to select two items for the exhibit: one contemporary, one historical. The resource below will help you find the historical item/artifact for the exhibit/assignment. This could be an image, or a short piece of text or article from the time period. In otherwise, a primary source. See the assignment description for full details.

Primary sources are original, uninterpreted information.  Scholars analyze primary sources in order to answer research questions. Examples of primary sources vary by discipline.

Examples in the humanities:

• a novel
• a painting
• a theatre performance

Examples in the social sciences:

• a political, social, or economic theory
• a dataset
• the results of an experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal

Example in the sciences:

• the results of an experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal