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1 1 Dr. Karen Hagemann Project Director University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of History Hamilton Hall, CB # 3195 Chapel Hill, NC hagemann@unc.edu GWonline Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on GENDER AND WAR SINCE 1600 Guide for the Work with GWonline Facebook Page: Table of Contents 1. General Instructions 2. List of GWonline Content to be Covered on Facebook Page 3. Instructions for Writing the Text of Facebook Posts 4. GWonline Exemplary Facebook Texts Examples 5. Instructions for Choosing Photos for Facebook Posts Appendix 1: Formatting Photos Appendix 2: Formatting Videos 1. General Instructions All work studies and graduate assistants are asked to regularly write posts for the GWonline Facebook page. Simply write a short post drafts, choose a couple of pictures for the post using the guidelines below and then send the post together with the websites where you found the images to our Facebook coordinator for posting on our Facebook page. A backlog of Facebook posts is desired, so a contribution of 1-2 Facebook posts drafts per week is encouraged from all work-study students and graduate assistants.

2 2 We will try to post every week, at least one new posts, if possible on Friday between 5-6 PM and in addition on Tuesday between 9-10 AM, because post at the same days and times increase visibility. The Facebook coordinator will post them on the GWonline Facebook page Everybody is kindly asked to spread the word about the GWonline Facebook site and help us to bring up our likes J. Our aim is that everybody new in the GWonline team wins ten new likes of the site. 2. List of GWonline Content to be Covered on Facebook Page In the following a list of all of the types of GWonline content we want represented through the Facebook page. Included in each type of content are suggestions for appropriate images to search for. Autobiographies from and on all time periods and regions (images: cover of the book and or historical portray(s) of the person from from Wikipedia; link to relevant GWonline source.) Books from and on all time periods and regions (images: cover of the book and/or related Wikipedia images, link to relevant GWonline source.) Films and documentaries from and on all time periods and regions (images: poster and photos from the movie on IMDB or Wikipedia; video of the trailer from You Tube; link to relevant GWonline source) Journal articles on all time periods and regions (images: historical photograph/picture related to the content from Wikipedia; link to relevant GWonline source.) Websites on all time periods and regions (Images: historical photograph/picture related to the content from Wikipedia; link to relevant GWonline source.) We need to make sure that we cover all time periods, different regions and all collections and media of GWonline. This is the responsibility of the Facebook coordinator. Everybody is encouraged to write about any time period, topic, or source type (i.e. films or autobiographies) that interests them, but it is good to keep in mind that we want a balanced representation of all that GWonline has to offer through our Facebook Posts. The Facebook coordinator will primarily be responsible for monitoring this, and if necessary write posts him/herself. In addition, Facebook coordinator needs to make sure that we honor special events on our Facebook page with posts, like history weeks and historical anniversaries, especially: February: Black History Month

3 3 March: May: July: August: September: November: December: Women's History Month March 8: International Women s Day May 8: End of World II in Europe May 11: Military Spouse Appreciation Day May 13: Children of Fallen Patriots Day July 28: Begin World War I August 3: Begin of World War II Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month September 1: Begin of World War II September 2: Formal Surrender of Japan American Indian Heritage Month November 11: Veterans Day December 3 rd : International Day of Persons with Disabilities 3. Instructions for Writing the Text of Facebook Posts Keep all posts limited to 3-4 sentences. Try to tell a story. Be historically specific and clearly relate the post to the content and the collections of GWonline! Each post should include at least one image (see the model posts) or video (e.g. a trailer for a movie), and a link to the GWonline website. Include language that connects the information in the post to the GWonline website, gender, and war. Make sure to mention GWonline by name in each post. Try to be specific and understandable for international readers. Examples of exemplary posts are below. 4. GWonline Exemplary Facebook Texts Examples Special Events: 1. On November 11 hundred years ago, Germany and the Allied Powers ended the First World War by signing the Armistice of 11 November 1918 in the middle of the Compiègne forest. To learn more about World War I, its aftermath and its impact on the civilian population, especially women, search GWonline's collection to find books, articles, websites, and films all relating to this topic, visit the website here: Autobiographies: 1. Clara Leach Adams-Ender (born 1939), daughter of an American sharecropper from North Caroline, who became the first woman to graduate from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College with a Master's Degree in Military Arts and Sciences in She retired with the military rank of Brigadier General, and went on to write an autobiography on her experiences. Learn more about her and her auto biography GWonline:

4 4 Books: 1. While most know Florence Nightingale ( ), who organized the use of trained nurses for the British army during the Crimean War ( ), as the mother of modern military nursing, she was also a profound social activist and reformer. Learn more about her in the 2019 book Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War, a collection of her writing edited by Lynn Macdonald and published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, on GWonline: Films & Documentaries: 1. In classic film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (USA, 1964) by director Stanley Kubrick ( ) an insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. Learn more about this film and other movies on gender and war here: 2. In the 1939 film production of Margaret Mitchell's ( ) novel Gone With The Wind (USA 1936) a manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War ( ) and Reconstruction periods. To learn more about this film and other movies about gender relations in the American Civil War go to GWonline: 3. In Africa during World War I ( ), a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a straitlaced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. Learn more about the 1951 British- American adventure film The African Queen directed by John Huston ( ) and other films on gender and war here: 4. The 2017 movie "First they Killed my Father" directed by Angelina Jolie (1975-) tells the powerful story of a little girl and siblings who survived war and the terror of the Khmer Rouge regime ( ) in Cambodia. Learn more about this film and other movies on gender and war here: Journal Article: 1. Meet Sybil Ludington ( ), a celebrated heroine of the American Revolutionary War ( ) and her journey in Paula D. Hunt's journal article, "Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine" published 2015 in the New England Quarterly, here: 5. Instructions for Choosing Photos for Facebook Posts When choosing which photographs to include for each type of Facebook post, please follow the criteria listed below (see also above): o For books, include the cover whenever it is possible; you can also include images of the author or images related to the subject. o For autobiographies, include images/photos of book cover and the author. o For movies, include the poster of the movie and movie screenshots or the movie trailer. o For journal articles, websites and events, search for related images on Wikipedia.

5 5 Try and use images from Wikipedia, or other Public Domain sites when they are available, so that we stay in compliance of copyright laws. Examples of exemplary images are below. Please pick at least two images to send to the Facebook coordinator when creating your post.

6 6 6. GWonline Exemplary Facebook Image Autobiographies: In this post, the cover of the book as well as a Wikipedia commons photo of nurses during World War I were chosen. In this post, the book cover and a photograph of the author were chosen.

7 7 Films: In this post, multiple different movie posters were chosen. In this post, the movie poster and two movie screenshots were chosen. Events: In this post, a picture of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and pictures of people celebrating its signing were chosen.

8 8 Journal Articles: In this post, a picture of the statue commemorating the woman who was the subject of the journal article was chosen. After You Have Completed Your Post: After you have written your post and chosen images/videos to go along with your post, send your post together with the images and the website for the image to the Facebook coordinator JE: jke09001@ad.unc.edu. She will post it. Appendix 1: Formatting Photos Instructions for Formatting Photos for Facebook Posts Formatting Images: Images attached to our Facebook posts must all be the same size: 940px x 788px. In order to accomplish this, we will be using the free design site called Canva ( to format our images. Once you have created an account with Canva, click on Create a Design. Select the Facebook Post template, under the category Social Media Posts. We will create a GWOnline Canva account that we can all use to create posts, and that way all past post images can be in the same place. Use this template to create the image for your Facebook post. You will need to download the images that you want to use from the internet to your computer and then upload them to Canva to format them. Once you have designed your image, click on the download button at the top right of the screen. This will download the image to your computer.

9 9 Return to Facebook, write your text, and then attach your downloaded image. Then click Post to submit your Facebook entry to the Facebook page. Examples of Facebook post images are below. GWOnline Exemplary Facebook Image Formatting Examples: Autobiographies:

10 10 Films: Events:

11 11 Additional Formatting Notes: Always try and include the entire picture of the movie poster, book cover, etc. in your post, instead of cropping it to make it fit. If you need to add additional pictures to your overall image in order to make sure that you do not need to crop, then do so. You can include more than on picture in your Facebook post image. You will just need to organize them in Canva. When you download the post image from Canva, it will be only one file. You can also put text in your Facebook post image as well. Again, just simply add the text while you are in Canva, and then download the entire image when you finished with the design. Try something new! It is encouraged to for the posts to look different from each other. Create a collage of photos for one of your posts, and then use only one in another. Variety is desired! Appendix 2: Formatting Videos Instructions for Choosing & Formatting Videos in Facebook Posts: As of now we will not focus on uploading videos to Facebook. Instead we will share videos from other sources, specifically movie trailers. Movie trailers can be found reliably on IMDb, especially for newer movies and YouTube. For older movies, trailers can sometimes be found on the Turner Classic Movies website. Please use official movie trailers, as their video quality is often better. For copyright reasons NEVER CLAIM that a video or movie trailer was created by the GWonline project if we didn t actually create it, like our how-to video. To embed videos, see the below instructions taken from the Facebook s guide: Step-by-Step 1. Choose URL Find URLfor page the video is located on. If finding video from YouTube, click on share and grab the embedding URL.

12 12 2. Posting Paste the URL into a Facebook post. It will load the video link to the post. You can then delete the URL and add your post text.

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