Assignment: Students will submit a 6-page historiography essay that builds upon the corrected Bibliography and Book Review assignment. Students may select topics from 1400 - 1878. The essay should contain a creative argument and demonstrate both careful analysis and clear prose while analyzing at least 4 scholarly sources that address a major subject of historiographical concern. The essay will be written in the Chicago style format using NoodleTools. The essay will be typed, with one-inch margins, double spaced, and Times New Roman size 12 text font. The essay should include a cover page, footnotes, and a bibliography. The essay will be uploaded into SafeAssign in Blackboard where it will be checked for plagiarism. The results of the report for SafeAssign should reflect a paper with less than 20% matching results. Essays must be uploaded to black board by December 10th @ 11:59 PM. Technical glitches should be accounted for, please save your work frequently and work ahead of deadlines. Late work will not be accepted.
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Assignment: The final paper will be a seven-page research essay with Chicago style with footnotes. Students will use NoodleTools to document all sources. A minimum of seven sources are required: four primary sources and three secondary sources. Students will analyze and explain racial tensions, issues, and legislation prior to the civil war. Their paper will look into the events that eventually caused the civil war. They will do this while analyzing racial issues in both the north and south, from the perspective of the government and society as a whole.
Historiography: A historiography is the analysis and interpretation of historical writings and perspectives over time. It is not the retelling of a events. A historiography may include multi-decade perspectives, viewpoints from a certain group (ie feminist, racial, nationalist etc), analyzing the work of a specific historian, etc.Refer to the "Step by Step LibGuide" from the University of Rhode Island to help you write a historiography
Helpful Library Resources to Choose a Topic:
Helpful Library Resources to Choose a Topic:
Abolitionism
Amistad
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Case
Emancipation Proclamation
Frederick Douglass
Fugitive Slave Act
Grimke Sisters
Harper's Ferry Raid
Harriet Tubman
Henry "Box" Brown
John C. Calhoun
Missouri Compromise
Mexican American War
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Sojourner Truth
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Underground Railroad
William Lloyd Garrison
William Still
Contains articles dating from colonial age to World War I and its aftermath. Government, military, political, social, cultural, inventions as well as discoveries are all included.