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Scenario
A visit to a history exhibit is like stepping back in time, with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. A museum exhibit on a historical event showcases artifacts from earlier times that help us understand how society got to where we are today. Of course, these exhibits did not arrive at the museum on their own, ready for display! It is up to the historian or curator who creates the exhibit to choose artifacts that tell a story about how people experienced events at a particular time and place. Through the selection of artifacts and the writing of their descriptions, the historian makes these connections.
This project is an opportunity to create an exhibit of your own about a historical topic that interests you. You will develop a proposal to show to a historical society or cultural association for an exhibit that presents a contemporary perspective on a historical event based on your research. The proposal will explain how this topic will tie into current events and be meaningful for a contemporary audience.
Directions
Earlier in this course, you selected a historical event and a historical society or cultural association in your peer workshop discussion. You also created a collection of resources related to your historical topic. For this project, you will create a proposal for an exhibit aimed at the historical society or cultural association you chose. 
Part 1: Purpose of Exhibit: Context and Background
In this section, provide the context for the exhibit by briefly describing the historical event and explaining why an exhibit about the historical event would be important today.
Describe the event as well as its historical importance. Consider the following:
What happened during this historical event?
Why is this event historically important?
Describe the impact of the event during its time period.
Explain the relationship between the organization your proposal is written for and your historical topic. Consider the following:
Why should the historical society or cultural association be interested in hosting the exhibit?
Describe a current issue that provides a contemporary context for this exhibit. Consider the following:
What is the connection between this historical event and an event or events happening today?
Analyze how the secondary sources you collected provide evidence for the topic of the exhibit. Consider the following:
What is relevant about the sources in relation to how you plan to present the exhibit
Part 2: Plan for Exhibit: Artifact Selection
In this section, describe the historical artifacts you have selected to be part of the exhibit. 
Identify five historical artifacts that you will present in the exhibit. You should address each of the following:
What are the documents, objects, images, or other items you will display as artifacts at the event?
Describe each artifact based on the information you researched in secondary sources. You should address each of the following:
Give a brief summary of the subject matter of the artifact.
Who was its author or creator?
Who was its audience or user?
Explain the historical context for each artifact. You should address all of the following:
When and where was the artifact created? 
Why was it created at this time and place? 
What was happening in this time and place that relates to the artifact? 
What specific information does the artifact provide about the event? 
Explain the relationship of the historical artifacts to each other as part of the exhibit. You should address all of the following:
What similarities do the historical artifacts have with each other?
What differences do the historical artifacts have from each other?
What reasons explain these similarities and differences?
Part 3: Telling Their Story: Artifact Analysis
In this section, you will tell the story of the historical event using your selected artifacts. You will provide an analysis of the historical and contemporary relevance of the artifacts you chose using research from the secondary sources in your Collection of Sources. You will also be describing the perspective or point of view represented by the artifacts, based on the Profile of a historical figure that you completed in Module Three. 
Explain the historical narrative for the artifacts you selected. You should address the following:
What would visitors to this exhibit learn about the historical event?
What characteristics of the artifacts influenced you to include them in the exhibit?
Describe how the artifacts relate to the perspectives or points of view of an individual or group directly involved in the historical event.
Describe how the artifacts relate to the perspectives or points of view of an individual or group who experienced the event but were not previously included in historical accounts of it.
Describe the impact of bias in presenting this perspective about the artifacts.
How does bias in the secondary sources influence your interpretation of the artifacts?
How does your bias influence your historical narrative about the event?
Part 4: Visitor Experience at the Exhibit: Contemporary Relevance for a Diverse Audience
In this section, you will connect your exhibit to an event or situation that is happening today.
Describe a historical narrative that connects the subject of the exhibit with contemporary life. Consider the following:
Which artifacts do you feel have the most relevance from a contemporary point of view?
How do the characteristics of the artifacts connect the subject of the exhibit with contemporary life?
Describe the relationship between this historical event and a current event.
What current events are occurring that relate to this historical event?
How are the events related to each other?
Why would a contemporary audience be interested in exploring this relationship? 
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Write your Project, a Historical Organization Exhibit Proposal, with the historical society or cultural association as your audience. Your proposal should be a Microsoft Word document of 4 to 5 pages with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Use at least five sources from the Shapiro Library that represent diverse perspectives to support your paper. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Course Outcomes
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
Develop questions about foundational historical events that inform personal assumptions, beliefs, and values using evidence from primary and secondary sources
Determine fundamental approaches to studying history in addressing questions about how events are shaped by their larger historical context
Investigate major developments in the progression of historical inquiry for informing critical questions related to historical narrative
Articulate the value of examining historical events for their impact on contemporary issues
Overview
Study the past if you would define the future.
—Confucius
Many people argue that we are products of our past. However, as the Chinese philosopher Confucius suggested, because the contemporary events taking place around us have histories, we can examine them to understand how and why the events came to be. By developing the skills needed to investigate those histories, we can uncover the historical roots of current events and learn from them. Researching, examining narratives, uncovering personal biases, and finding credible resources are some of those skills. We might not want to be historians in the future, but we should all understand how to look at things from a historical standpoint to better understand contemporary issues.
For this project, you will choose a historical event to explore from the Library Research Guide. These events fit into the topic areas of:
Inequality and human rights
Political revolutions
Climate change
Globalization
Directions
Read these directions and the rubric criteria and reach out to your instructor if you have any questions before you begin working on this project. Many of the steps below will require you to reference and utilize the work you have done in previous modules of this course. You may use the provided template to complete this project or choose not to use the template and submit a Word document instead.
Part 1: Creating a Research Question: The quality of research often depends on the quality of the question driving it. It is important to understand how personal opinions, perspectives, and historical sources all play a part in developing and examining a research question. Complete the following steps to discuss how you developed a strong research question about your chosen historical event.
Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
How might your own perspectives and opinions impact the topic you chose and how you may approach studying it?
Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event.
State your historical research question and explain the connection between your current event and your question.
Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question.
Identify the specific primary and secondary sources you used.
Discuss how evidence in these primary and secondary sources strengthened or challenged the focus of your question.
Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions: In this part of the project, you will examine the historical context related to your historical event. The context will be like snapshots that capture what was happening in history that affected the development of your current event.
Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time? How might this historical event connect or lead to your current event?
Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event.
This person or people must have directly participated in the event you identified as it was happening, not after it.
Use specific details from your primary and secondary sources to demonstrate how the person or people participated in the event.
Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event.
Consider why the person or people were motivated to get involved in the event.
Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative: Narrative is how people tell stories based on their own assumptions, beliefs, and values. From a historical perspective, narratives influence who we focus on, what we focus on, and how we discuss events and issues in the past and present. Complete the following steps to explore how the stories about your current event and the historical events leading to it have been told.
Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event.
There can be multiple narratives depending on your sources. Pick one or two that you feel have been the most influential.
Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history.
How do potentially biased sources influence knowledge of your historical event and current event?
Support your stance with examples from your primary and secondary sources.
Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical event’s narrative.
Whose stories were not recorded? Whose voices were ignored or silenced?
Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present: Consider how the work you have done to develop your research question and investigate it can be used to explain connections between the past and present. Complete the following steps to discuss the value of developing historical inquiry skills.
Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current event.
How did examining your current event from a historical perspective help you better comprehend its origins?
Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual.
Why is it valuable to be aware of your assumptions, beliefs, and values when encountering information in your personal, academic, and professional life?
Discuss how being a more historically informed citizen may help you understand contemporary issues.
Consider how having knowledge of history could influence how you approach current challenges or questions in the world.
What to Submit
To complete this project, submit the completed template or submit a Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Supporting Materials
The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:
Library Guide: HIS 100: Perspectives in History
Use this library guide to support your research.
Document: HIS 100 Project Template Word Document (Optional)
FFFor my historical event i chose Inequality and human rights: Tulsa Massacre.
i Have attached the template for the project: History 100 Project Template
i ha have also atached all of my activity templates from the previous modules.