March 25, 2005
March 21, 2005
History 121 Paper 2 Assignment
Choose a primary source from the Modern History Sourcebook (found at: Modern History Sourcebook)
Research your document—find out who wrote it, when it was written, and why it was written.
Next, write a 3-5 page paper analyzing that primary document. Your analysis should do three things:
1. Outline the main point of the document (what is it saying?)
2. How the document makes its point? (Is it making emotional arguments, logical arguments, giving lots of evidence, no evidence?)
3. Why it is making that point? (Why do the authors believe what they do? Who are they arguing with?)
You should back your analysis up with evidence from the document itself as well as from the research you did.
You must include a copy of the document itself. You must use citations in the paper. You should have five sources in a bibliography to show that you have researched the context of the document. The document cannot be one of the sources. Encyclopedia entries may, however, be. You may use web pages for two of the five sources
Due: April 4th.
March 14, 2005
Undergraduate Journal of Research Call for Papers
The Gaines Junction, the undergraduate interdisciplinary journal of history at Texas A&M University, is currently accepting submissions from undergraduate students for its next issue. The Gaines Junction is an online history journal named in honor of Matthew Gaines, one of the foremost African-American leaders in Texas during the second half of the 19th century. The journal is published by the local Phi Alpha Theta chapter at Texas A&M with the support of the Department of History and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research It is student-authored and edited, and faculty-reviewed, and published twice a year.
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