Posted: September 13th, 2017

American History Before 1877

For this assignment, you need to visit the National Archives
Experience. Historians typically use two types of materials, secondary
source, and primary source documents. Secondary sources are typically
books and articles written on a particular historical event, well
after the fact. Primary source documents are usually generated by
first-hand participants. Good historians rely heavily on original
materials created at the time of the event. For this reason,
historians spend a good deal of time at the archives. There are many
types of archives, but by far, the largest in the United States, is
the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The National Archives
contains more than 10 billion documents, and they have collected over
1,200 of those in the National Archives Experience. After you have
opened the above link, click on “continue” in the bottom right corner.
This will take you to the Experience site. Here, you can select a
topic, and collect documents relevant to that aspect of history. The
system will then allow you to create posters, or even a video. There
are a number of ways that you can complete this assignment. Once you
have collected your documents, you can create three posters, a video,
a PowerPoint, or use them as evidence for writing a 3-5 page essay.
Naturally, you will need some other information, and you can gather
that through your textbook, the internet, or other books and articles
You are allowed to choose your own topic as long as it pertains to the
subject of this course. If you have any questions on the subject
matter, please contact your professor. This is your opportunity to
look a little deeper at a subject that interests you. All information
must be cited. You are welcome to use APA but if you are a history
major, you are strongly encouraged to us the Chicago Style format. If
you are writing a paper, it must be double-spaced (Times New Roman,
font size 12), and include a cover page with your name, course number
and course title, instructor’s name, and date. Once completed, you
should post a copy of your project in the Assignments’ section, as
well as the forum reserved for that (see Forum 4). you will be
responding to your classmates submissions of their assignments next
week. You must respond to three of your classmates submissions of
their project Please remember NO PLAGIARISM. Before you complete this
assignment please click here to read the school policy on plagiarism!
Any work found to have been plagiarized will receive a zero. Your
papers will be automatically submitted to turnitin to check for
plagiarism.