Choosing A Topic
Like many students I’ve always struggled at narrowing my area of interest down. I find it extremely difficult to sit down and ask myself questions about an area or subject that interests me, especially how I can work that interest into…
Primary Source: American Revolution
While the rhetoric of the American Revolution glowed with exultations of liberty, freedom, and the equality of all men, these principles did not extend to the entirety of colonial society. The most glaring irony of the Revolution, even since its…
Primary Source Perspectives: Eating Dog
I read Jeremiah Greenman’s perspective on his role as a soldier in the American revolution. He ate a dog that he murdered and left five of his sick, and unable to march, fellow soldiers, in the woods to die in…
How did the perspective highlights the difficulties of war in the American Revolution?
Hi, Professor Sleeper and fellow HIST113H classmates. I decided to choose the “Primary Source: Slave Petition for Freedom, 1777” for my primary source perspective analysis. “Natural and Inalienable Right to Freedom”: Slaves’ Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature in…
Clarification on Research Meeting
Hi All, I just wanted to clarify that the meeting scheduled on February 23rd at San Elijo is for Professor Bond and Lane’s classes. Prof. Bond
Choosing a Topic and Narrowing it Down
I found that the reading for this week, “Choosing a Topic” by the University of British Columbia, brought up some very good points. Particularly, the comment that “effective academic writing is not an innate skill or ability” I find to be important…
Week 5: Primary vs. Secondary Sources & Organizing and Documenting Your Research
Hi All, This last week has been a combination of additional introductions, posts on the study of history, and the introduction of topics. If you haven’t yet, respond to some of your colleagues’ posts and start a conversation. Professor Bond…
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