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| H 271: Document Reviews |
Document Review Paper Your Choices: Again, students must address the document significance by using the text, so there papers should be focused on the document, but also include many references from the text--for example, a student can choose any combination of documents from industrialization to discuss wealth and corporate capitalism to its impact on the increasing numbers of urban workers, and to do so you could include text information on basic economic changes, labor organization, and urbanization. The idea is to apply the historical context supplied by the text to the understanding of a document. It is important that you cite your chosen document/s at the top of your paper, underneath your title. Some of these "documents" are databases, and you can choose among many documents, pictures, posters, etc. Please put your particular chosen document at the top of your paper, and if you are using pictures or posters, include a cut/paste copy at the end of your paper. Paper #1: (West) Paper #2 Doc #12: "Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th president of the United States: 1901-1909," in Documents 1901-25, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tr26/index.htm (linked on Moodle); Doc #13: "American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899," in Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Found under "Imperialism, Celebrations and Objections." Direct Link: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899antiimp.html (linked on Moodle); Doc #14: "Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899," in Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Found under "Imperialism, Celebrations and Objections." Direct Link: http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kipling.html (linked on Moodle); Doc #15: World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago--go to this fair via visual documents found in "The Dream City:" http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/ and in The Encyclopedia of Chicago: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html (linked on Moodle) (WWI) Doc #16: "President Wilson's Fourteen Points," found at the WWI Document Archive (BYU): Click "Conventions, Treaties, and Official Papers," then "United States" under "Official Papers by Country," then "President Wilson's Fourteen Points." Direct Link: http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1918/14points.html (linked on Moodle); Doc #17: "WWI Image Archive, Photographs": Found at: http://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm (heads of state and medicine) Doc #19: "America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945," Library of Congress, found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/ (linked on Moodle) Doc #20: "By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943," Library of Congress, found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposquery.html (linked on Moodle) (Great Depression, WWII, Media) Doc #21: War of the Worlds (linked on Moodle) (1950s Commerce and Consumerism) Doc #22: Fifties & Advertisements: 1-AdClassix.com: http://www.adclassix.com/sitemap.htm ; 2-Advertising Archives: Fifties at http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery_1950s.php (linked on Moodle) (1950s-60s Society and Culture) Doc #23: ARE YOU READY FOR MARRIAGE (1950) http://www.archive.org/details/AreYouRe1950 (linked on Moodle); Doc #24: The Pill, a PBS Film with website and links found at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/ Make sure to find the links to the Interviews with mostly women "before and after." (linked on Moodle) (Civil Rights) Doc #25: Civil Rights Movement Veterans at http://www.crmvet.org/ (linked on Moodle) Doc #26: "Year of the Pig" 1968 (film) Interview with Antonio at http://www.reverseshot.com/article/emile_de_antonio_interview and film: Year of the Pig on YouTube (watch first part): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQhwEGVVGS4 (linked on Moodle) (Counter Culture) Doc #27: FSM & Counter Culture at UCB: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/ (linked on Moodle); Doc #28: Prelinger: The Haight at http://www.archive.org/details/SanFrancisco1968 (linked on Moodle); Doc #29: CBC Archives: Youth Rebellion/ http://archives.cbc.ca/society/youth/topics/580/ (linked on Moodle) (Postwar Politics) Doc #30: Watergate (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/ (linked on Moodle) _____________ ______________________________ FIRST, DEVELOP YOUR THESIS. Study your chosen document, then answer each of the following: 1. DOCUMENT CITATION (Also, see below) Information about document: Author (s), Title, place and date of publication/ production, website citation (Reference Information: who, when, where, & how was this document produced?--also, include website where document was accessed). Use the following as a rough guide for citation--information you should always try to identify when using a document: AUTHOR(S)/ ORGANIZATION OR ASSOCIATION/ EDITOR you should always look for a specific author, even if the general "author" is an association oorganization. TITLE OF PUBLICATION OR PROGRAM Titles of books are usually underlined or italicized, articles are put in "quotation marks" and the journal or book titles in which they are found are underlined or italicized. PLACE OF PUBLICATION/ PROGRAM ORIGIN PUBLISHER OR PRODUCER--who produced this book, journal, or program (in its physical form). DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTION WEBSITE INFO: Who has put this document on the website & why? Include URL last. 2. BASIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION The BASICS about the document--and be both thorough and concise in your identification--include the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY (the apparent why), & WHERE basics of the document. 3. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Using your textbook, explain the significance of the document--given the context of time, how do you explain the importance of the document (representing a particular issue, person, or event)? What other events take place at the same time which might help explain its significance? Think of this as a PUZZLE, an enigma to unravel using the basic survey tools of ideas, issues, people, and events contemporary to the document being considered. Use these specifics and your historical imagination. BASED ON EVIDENCE FOUND IN YOUR TEXT, or on the work of other historians/writers, CONSTRUCT a well-supported argument to explain the significance and meaning of the document. 4. WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO OR OPINION OF THE DOCUMENT? Pull together your argument into an overall evaluation expressed in a careful and clear THESIS. SECOND, ORGANIZE YOUR IDEAS AROUND YOUR THESIS, and use the following as a guide--include the following in your final draft. 1. INTRODUCTION Include an introductory opening to interest the reader--this might be its own paragraph, or you might combine it with your thesis paragraph below. Make the reader want to go further. 2. THESIS PARAGRAPH Include in this paragraph 1) your thesis; 2) a brief explanation of it; and end with 3) your points of evidence in the order you will be discussing them (i.e. points A, B, & C). This last part should help you to clarify your points, and also, sets up your paper for the reader. 3. ESSAY BODY Point A Point B Point C Note: Each section should begin with a topic sentence that sums up the significance of the evidence you will be presenting, and that also ties it to your overall thesis. 4. CONCLUSIONS Sum up your overall points into a persuasive conclusion. 5. Reference Notes and Citations Please include FOOTNOTES or ENDNOTES in the text of your paper citing sources for quotes and for significant points. You should also include a BIBLIOGRAPHY which would include our textbook and any sources used to understand your document. You won't have to include the citation for your document because you will include this at the top of your paper. For both REFRENCE and BIBLIOGRAPHIC citations, historians use the Chicago Style. Please go to the Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide at: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html . Although you need to subscribe to the site for more information, this "Quick Guide" page is free. All you need to do is to follow this guide--remembering that B is for Bibliography and N is for Note, or the reference notes that you include either at the foot of the page of your final paper, or at the very end (end note) |