What is the student project and how does it contribute to the History Engine database?
Episodes. The main student project associated with the HE is the creation of episodes that make up the cumulative database. An episode is a story about anything from a congressional act to a meeting between two neighbors, from a store receipt to a love letter, from a sheet of music to a children’s book. The goal of the episode is not to recount textbook-like facts but to try to understand the past from the perspective of the Americans who lived it. The episode provides the details of these daily occurrences found in one or more primary documents and contextualizes those details with information from secondary sources. A completed episode has the following format: • Episode Title: A short but descriptive title for the episode, less than a sentence. • Start and End Dates: The Database will need to know when the episode began and, if applicable, when it ended. For one-day events, no end date is necessary. For others, however, the episode will have occurred over the course of several days,
