Catherine Kelly Overview The papers in this course are exercises in research and writing. They are designed to enhance both analytical and communication skills and to provide a deeper understanding of history. First Paper: Primary Sources The first paper will be an approximately 1000-word essay based on the set of primary sources (“What Can You Get [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Populist Factions Primary Source Party Platform: Omaha Platform, National People’s Party Platform. » Read (requires password) Secondary Source Article: Thomas Frank, “The Leviathan with Tentacles of Steel: Railroads in the Minds of Kansas Populists,” Western Historical Quarterly » Read 2. Western Regionalism Primary Source Book Chapter: Frederick [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” Primary: Speech: “The Evil Empire,” President Reagan’s Speech to the House of Commons, June 8, 1982. » Read Secondary: Article: Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, "Who Won the Cold War?" Foreign Policy (Summer 1992) » Read
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Richard Nixon Primary: Speech: Richard Nixon: “Address to the Nation About the Watergate Investigations April 30, 1973” » Read Secondary: Article: “The Watergate Story” published in The Washington Post Part 1 » Read Part 2 » Read Part 3 » Read Part 4 » Read [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” Primary: "Telegram From the Embassy in Vietnam to the Department of State,” Saigon, January 13, 1968 » Read Broadcast: Walter Cronkite’s “We Are Mired in Stalemate,” February 27, 1968 » Read Secondary: Article: Chester J. Pach, “TV’s 1968: War, Politics, and Violence on the Network Evening [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Civil Rights and the Cold War Primary Source Court Ruling: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision » Read Secondary Source Article: Mary Dzudziak, “Brown as a Cold War Case,” Journal of American History » Read 2. Segregation at the University of Oklahoma Primary Source A) Article: [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Asymmetric Conflict and the Cold War Primary Source Speech: Harry S. Truman, “President Harry S. Truman’s Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947” » Read Secondary Source Article: Andrew Mack, “Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars,” World Politics » Read 2. The Cold War at [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. World War II: What Our Boys Are Fighting For Primary Source Speech: Henry A. Wallace, “Century of the Common Man,” » Read (requires password) Secondary Source Article: Robert B. Westbrook, “’I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Harry James’: American Women and the [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. The Great Depression and the New Deal Primary Source Speech: Franklin Roosevelt, "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1933 » Read Speech: Franklin Roosevelt, "Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis," March 12, 1933 » Read Secondary Source Article: Christina Romer, “What Ended the Great Depression?” The Journal of Economic [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Herbert Hoover’s Vision for America Primary Source Book Chapter: Herbert Hoover, "American Individualism," American Individualism (Chapter 1) » Read Secondary Source Article: Ellis Hawley, “Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an ‘Associative State,’ 1921-1928,” The Journal of American History » Read 2. Harlem Renaissance Primary Source Poem: [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. World War I and Trans-National America Primary Source Article: Randolph Bourne, “Trans-National America,” from The Atlantic Monthly » Read (requires password) Secondary Source A) Article: John Higham, “American Immigration Policy in Historical Perspective,” Law and Contemporary Problems » Read B) Article: Mae Ngai, “Nationalism, Immigration Control, and the [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. The March of the Mill Children Primary Source Book Chapter: Mother Jones, “The March of the Mill Children,” Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation » Read (requires password) Secondary Source Book Chapter: Elliot J. Gorn, “The Children’s Crusade,” Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Conservatism and Liberalism in the Gilded Age Primary Source Article: William Graham Sumner, “What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other” » Read Article: Lester Frank Ward, “Mind as a Social Factor” » Read Secondary Source Book Chapter: Joan Fabian Witt, “Crippled Workmen, Destitute Widows, and the [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? “Find Additional Library Resources” 1. Reconstruction and Voting Rights Primary Source Speech: Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” » Read (requires password) Secondary Source Article: Patrick Williams, “Suffrage Restriction in Post-Reconstruction Texas: Urban Politics and the Specter of the Commune,” The Journal of Southern History » Read -OR- Article: Eric Foner, [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? "Find Additional Library Resources" 1. Andrew Jackson’s Vision for America Primary Source Two letters by Andrew Jackson: A) Andrew Jackson’s Letter to John Sevier, October 9, 1803 » Read (requires password) B) “Andrew Jackson to ‘Brave Tennesseans’" in Whig Extra, 1813 » Read Secondary Source Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, “Jackson’s Vision: Creating a [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? "Find Additional Library Resources" 1. The Working Class in Revolutionary America Primary Source Brutus, “To the Free and Loyal Inhabitants of the City of New York,” » Read Secondary Source Alfred F. Young, George Robert Twelves. “A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution,” The William and Mary Quarterly » Read 2. [...]
Need Help Finding More Sources? "Find Additional Library Resources" 1. Food and Authority in Colonial America Primary Source Captain John Smith,”The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their…” » Read Note: Once you access the source, click on the title and read from page [...]
Kathryn Schumaker Second Paper Guidelines The second paper for this course is due Thursday, April 14 at noon in the D2L dropbox (and in hard copy, for Ms. Peñuelas’s sections). The entire assignment is worth 250 points. Fifty of those points come from the homework assignments for the second paper as listed on the syllabus, [...]
Kathryn Schumaker Overview The papers in this course are exercises in research and writing. They are designed to enhance both analytical and communication skills and to provide a deeper understanding of history. First Paper: Primary Sources A short essay based on the set of primary sources provided on the D2L site and on the accompanying [...]
David Wrobel Handout 4: Guidelines for Second Paper Your research paper (the second paper) topic is due in discussion section in Wk. 9, W/R/F, Mar 21/23. The assignment is worth 250 points—it is the most heavily weighted assignment of the semester (worth 50 more points than the final exam)—so invest time and effort in it. [...]
David Chappell Overview The papers in this course are exercises in research and writing. They are designed to enhance both analytical and communication skills and to provide a deeper understanding of history. First Paper: Primary Sources A short essay based on this set of four primary sources “Excepts from The Black Codes of Mississippi” (1865) [...]
Matthew Kruer Your assignment is to write an original research paper that should be approximately 2,000 words, or six to seven double-spaced pages. In the process of writing this paper you will learn and then demonstrate the essential skills of the historian: defining a research question, gathering evidence, interpreting sources, and articulating an original argument [...]
Matthew Kruer Overview The papers in this course are exercises in research and writing. They are designed to enhance both analytical and communication skills and provide a deeper understanding of the interpretive function of thinking about and studying history. First Paper: Primary Sources The first paper is a short essay based on the primary sources [...]
Catherine Kelly Second Paper: Research Essay The second paper builds on the skills that were introduced in the first paper. This assignment begins with the pairing of a primary document and a secondary work drawn from the list provided on the course website. For example, you might choose a pairing like the following: Primary Document: [...]