Week 7: Process and Product

Hello and welcome to Week 7 of History Honors. As always, you will be asked to post twice, or once covering two topics. The first relies on  Formulating a Thesis. Take a look, and let us know the process you’re…

Week 4: Choosing a Topic

Hi everyone! We have some wonderful introductions going! Please go back and respond to your colleagues so we can get to know each other. 🙂 If you haven’t edited your Profile so that you are receiving emails and have an…

Why study history? and my research

Why study history? and my research

After looking at the AHA article about the survey, I found it interesting that many thought that the most useful historical skills, regardless of their career, were research and writing. That’s exactly what we’re focused on for Honors. In addition,…

It’s time to get started!

Hello to our History Honors cohort! So far Tiffany, Griffin, Annaise, and Terrin are on board, and we look forward to your posts. Everyone, please log in with the invite sent to you (contact me if you didn’t get one!) and…

Welcome

Welcome to the information and journaling site for the History Honors Contract Community, meeting this semester at San Elijo campus with Professors Chris Sleeper, Lisa M. Lane, and Robert Bond. Each professor has developed an individual syllabus for the class…

Week 3: secondary research

As we move into using more secondary as well as primary sources, I want to help out a bit with finding good secondary sources. When historians use the term “scholarly article”, they usually mean something published in a peer-reviewed journal….

Week 1

Hi! I have changed the theme yet again – haven’t been happy with any yet. Let me know what you think? OK, for Week 1 we have an introductory post, and one other about what topic(s) you’re interested in exploring.