BURNING THE BOOKS: A HISTORY OF THE DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  HOW IS DIGITALIZATION CHALLENGING THE DISCRETION OF LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS AS PRESERVATIONISTS SEEKING TRUTH IN DOCUMENTARY MEMORY?

OBJECTIVES:  SWBAT annotate, analyze, evaluate and synthesize excerpted primary and secondary sources toward skill building for the AP WORLD MODERN exam.

CITATIONS:

Ovenden, Richard.  Burning the Books:  A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge.  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2020)

AP WORLD MODERN:

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-world-history