Do you feel that you did justice to the person, place, or event being discussed?

I will copy/paste the official prompt from the Professor:

“This assignment asks you to translate what youve learned into popular historyspecifically, into a historical marker. History is often hard, and things like historical markers have a difficult job.

Choose a person/people, place, or event in Milwaukees past that contributed to the citys character. Whom/whatever you decide, it must correspond to the courses themes: gender, race, and/or ethnicity in Milwaukee. Now, write a brief justification as to why your topic should be commemorated. Who are your stakeholders in this project? If there is already a historical marker/other form of commemoration in place, why is an update/addition necessary? If no marker exists, why do you think that is the case?

Next, write the text of the monument. Include a title and possible location. The body text should be between 250 and 350 words and should include what you feel to be the most pertinent data. Please include an accurate word count after the markers body text.

Finally, tell me what information you chose to include as well as that which you specifically excluded. Why did certain information make the cut? Why did exclude what you did? Would there be any advantage to have included it? How do you think your stakeholders will respond? How about others you didnt have in mind? Do you feel that you did justice to the person, place, or event being discussed?

The purpose of this assignment is to illustrate the delicate job of public history and the potential impacts on community that history of all kinds has on understanding the self in relation to the other.

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Attached, I have the official prompt screenshot, and a list of the possible historical markers you can focus on to write about. Additionally, attached is a sample paper of what is needed. Please please please refer to the sample paper as much as possible. The sample paper is my Professor’s paper on the subject, so use the sample paper as a template for what is needed from this assignment.
Try to keep the sources similar, if possible. For example, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee research library or the Wisconsin Historical Society are great sources no matter what historical marker you decide to focus on.

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