American Yawp Primary Source Reader:http://www.americanyawp.com/reader.html Assignment Guidelines The assignment(s) described below are designed to familiarize you with an essential process which historians use to do their scholarship: primary source analysis. Once historians have chosen their narrow topic of interest, they then consult primary sources, records and artifacts generated by people living in that time and place appropriate to the issue under examination. These primary sources can be almost anything: official records generated by a government agency or other institution, religious texts, fictional stories told for entertainment purposes, diaries or letters of witnesses to events, maps, bills of sale, wills, contracts, inventories, paintings or other artwork. Doing historical research that would be accepted by other historians as legitimate, not only requires an accurate reading of primary sources, but understanding of the wider events going on in the time and place under examination, as well as the larger world surrounding it. The Primary sources are available online and are associated with specific chapters of American Yawp. For both assignments, students will choose a specific document to analyze form a pre- selected list and inform the instructor using the Primary Source Analysis Essay Selection Surveys.
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