Wikipedia:School and university projects/Appropriating History

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.

Group Exercise Spring 2008
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:
 * Gibson House (Boston)
 * First Church of Jamaica Plain
 * William C. Nell House
 * Haffenreffer Brewery
 * Adams-Nervine Asylum