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The course, Appropriating History, is an intermediate seminar within the photography area of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston taught by Carla Herrera-Prats. The course is divided between sections devoted to readings and a class determined group exercise.[1]

Group Exercise Spring 2008

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In considering how historical material operates in the present, and our relationship to the course readings, we elected to work with Wikipedia. The concerns of the course lent themselves to a negotiation with the seemingly endless encyclopedic properties of a format like Wikipedia. Our original intention was to develop the pages according to a twofold criterion of:

1) The site must be a registered historic landmark in Suffolk County without a preexisting Wikipedia Page.
2) The page must be developed from primary source materials.

Our project is comprised of the following pages:

References

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  1. ^ Details of the course
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