The purpose of these document reviews is to use textbook information to explain the significance of a document, to give you some depth of understanding, and to help you study the text for the exams. Turn in TWO reviews of documents--the first should be turned in next week, and the second in the fifth week--these document choices will be discussed in class and posted by the third week.

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Summer 371 Doc Rev Paper #1

Focus on one for your paper, though you may use all of them in discussing the significance of your particular document.

Doc #1: "Henry George note, Excerpt from:Progress and Poverty 1879, " in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1876-1900/reform/progress.htm

Doc #2: "Horatio Alger, Who Shall Win, A Story of School Life," Golden days for boys and girls. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 6, 1880) Published: Philadelphia : James Elverson, 1880. Found at: Northern Illinois Library (online)/ Northern Illinois University Libraries DeKalb IL, 60115-2868 (815) 753-1995 http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/alger/DigRepos/whoshallwin.cfm--you can also google up "Alger Who Shall Win"--also, see the Horatio Alger Bio at Northern Illinois University, their Alger Collection, http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/alger/index.cfm (Chronological list of Horatio Alger Stories at: http://www.thehoratioalgersociety.org/al04002.htm )

Doc #3: "Andrew Carnegie note, Wealth, June 1889, " in Documents 1876-1900, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1876-1900/reform/carnegie

Doc #4: Mark Twain on Horatio Alger found at "Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources, Washburn University. "Good" & "Bad" Boy Paradies of Horatio Alger, web link: http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/algerres.html (more specifically at http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/goodboy.html and http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/badboy.html)

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.

Then organize your paper, and use the following as a guide--include the following parts 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.

4. 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)

Summer 371 Doc Rev Paper #2

Choose ONE for your second paper:

1-"Lower East Side Tenement Museum," http://www.tenement.org/

Take an hour to go to New York and to take this VIRTUAL TOUR of a tenement. There are other exhibits at this site that are worth visiting. Explore. How do you explain these living conditions?

2-Museum of American Finance/http://www.moaf.org/index to to the Archive of Exhibits and pick one that interests you, then read its description.

For example, there is a current exhibit on "Women of Wall Street," and there have been exhibits on Wall Street Trading, Wells Fargo, and J.P. Morgan. Choose one that you find interesting (http://www.moaf.org/exhibits/archive ) --Choose an exhibit and explain what the exhibit reveals about the 1920s +.

3-"Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First inaugural address, Saturday, March 4, 1933," in Documents 1926-1950, From Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm) Document link: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/fr32/

Consider his speech, what does it reveal about the leadership qualities of FDR? Why?

4-"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/

Go to the SUBJECT INDEX and explore photographs according to your interest. Choose ONE photograph that you find most reflective of the Great Depression. Why did you choose ite? How does it reveal the Great Depression?

5-"By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943," Library of Congress, found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposquery.html

Go to SUBJECT INDEX and explore the posters from various categories. What do you think was the impact of these posters? How are these posters significant?

6-Fifties & Advertisements

AdClassix.com: http://www.adclassix.com/sitemap.htm

Advertising Archives: Fifties at http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery_1950s.php

Look through these advertisements and choose ONE you think most reveals the 1950s--why?

8-ARE YOU READY FOR MARRIAGE (1950) http://www.archive.org/details/AreYouRe1950 Prelinger Film Archive

What does this film reveal about 1950s Baby Boom culture?

8-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."

Listen to the "before" and "after" interviews--how do you think the pill was significant to women and men after 1960s? American culture?

9-Watergate (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/

Choose one of these episodes (such as the "smoking gun." What does it reveal about Nixon? About the nature of presidential leadership in the 1960s and 1970s? Why and what do you think was the impact of changing media technology?