Overview
Your assignment is to write an original 7-page historical research essay, drawing on at least 5 primary documents and 2 secondary documents without using ChatGPT or other auto-writing software and applications. Your topic should be narrowly focused and related to one of the following types of early electronic media: electricity, electrical telegraphy, phonograph, wireless telegraphy, radio, or early television. Your historical essay should be focused in one of three areas, the: 1) ownership or invention of an electronic media technology by a particular inventor or company, and competitors; 2) use and arrangement of an electronic media technology in a particular location (state, city, town) or social context (home, workplace, public site, urban/rurasetting); or 3) electronic media content and its meaning and significance (electrical displays, telegrams, phonograph cylinders, radio or TV shows, advertising). Sample topics in each of these areas are included in a list
Due: Thursday, March 7th, 2pm
Media History Digital Library:https://mediahistoryproject.org/