4: Research
Choose up to two assignments from your archive that demonstrate the following History learning goal and link the files directly to this page, following the instructions at the bottom.
Employ historical research methodologies and create a historical account from varied sources.
Develop a historical question, and locate and interpret primary sources as evidence.
Use library and electronic resources to find appropriate sources.
Demonstrate familiarity with various methodologies (e.g. archival research, oral history)
Place a historical inquiry in the context of relevant historiography and/or broader frameworks of interpretation.
Integrate varied sources in a coherent historical argument (thesis).
Employ standard citation styles, especially Chicago Style/Turabian Style (footnotes or endnotes).
Use this portion of the page to:
introduce your work with a reflection and explain how/where it demonstrates that particular concept or skill. This might take you anywhere from a paragraph to a page. The whole paper need not be perfect and need not meet every last detail of the learning outcome.
analyze your own work’s shortcomings. This demonstrates the kind of higher order thinking we expect of History majors; we encourage you to be critical in your assessment.
explain what you did and what you might do differently, were you to do it again or take the project further in the future.