To develop your papers, you will first research the primary and secondary sources available on this topic. It is strongly recommended that you take advantage of the resources in the Shapiro Library to ensure that your references are appropriate. Secondary sources may be found using JSTOR and the “peer-reviewed” articles you can find in the “America: History and Life” database, which you can access via the Shapiro Library. When searching “America: History and Life,” be sure that the checkbox for “peer-reviewed” is checked, as there are articles in that database that do not qualify as secondary sources. As usual, if you have questions about a secondary source, please do not hesitate to ask your instructor before you use it.
Once you have read a number of primary and secondary sources, it should cause something to occur in your mind called “critical mass” (a term borrowed the “hard sciences”). You reach “critical mass” in history when you have researched sufficiently in the sources to let the documents suggest a thesis for your paper. Historians do not first come up with a thesis and then search for documents to support their argument. Historians immerse themselves in the sources and let these suggest the thesis. That is the track that knowledge takes—accumulating sufficient data to produce information and then taking that information and transforming it into knowledge.
Prompt: Once you have researched your topic, you will submit your thesis and corollaries (i.e., overall claim and claims specific to the cultural, economic, political, and religious contexts). You will also include a basic sketch of your supporting evidence and a list of the resources and scholarly references you plan to use in your paper. Again, it is strongly recommended that you take advantage of the resources in the Shapiro Library to ensure that your references are appropriate. You may use the table below to structure your submission if you choose, but even if you do not, your submission should include the basic elements represented below.
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