Assignment 1: 2 pages
For this assignment, you are required to submit a preliminary annotated bibliography of works that you anticipate might be included in your final Historiographical Essay. At this point, a minimum of 15, properly formatted ANNOTATED items are required.
For details, see the syllabus and the "Historiographical Essay" documents: General Douglas MacArthur's Application of the Principles of The Art of War Historiographical Essay. Do remember to apply the required Chicago style protocols. The most current version of the Chicago Formatting Style Guides is available in the online library [webpage]. Note that significant points will be deducted for failure to annotate your entries. Need Assignment Help?
Assignment 2: 9 pages
Historiographical Essay - The Seven Years' War and its Implications for Colonial America: A historiographical essay summarizes and analyzes interpretations of scholars on a given issue or topic. For this assignment, your assigned topic will be the Seven Years' War and its implications for Colonial America. Remember, the historiographical essay is a special type of analytical writing that only considers secondary sources - available through the online library EBSCO, JSTOR and ProQuest databases, among others - and traces how historians have interpreted this topic over time. Essays will be a minimum of 2,500 and a maximum of 3,500 words and must include a minimum of 20 relevant secondary sources. Annotation is not required in the final essay bibliography. The grading rubric for this assignment is attached below. For additional guidance, the sample historiographical essay - "General Douglas MacArthur's Application of the Principles of The Art of War" - is also attached. Note that it identifies and reviews secondary sources that approach the topic and is not a general history essay.
Note that the reference citations are not to be included in the word count, and the essays shall be typed, double-spaced, and in a 12-point Times New Roman font. Again, citations are required and must follow the Chicago footnote/bibliography citation protocols[webpage]. Please see the example in the .pdf but those are general assessments (based on each source), you will occasionally need to go one step further and connect to page numbers for maximum points.
Regarding Internet sources to be used citation purposes, acceptable sites include scholarly websites and documents available through the APUS Online Library, or other academic and governmental holdings, libraries, archives and databases. For our purposes, Wikipedia (as well as the other "Wiki" sites) is not considered a valid academic source. Note that as graduate students, it is your responsibility to ensure the proper formatting for your bibliography and footnote entries. There will be a total of 35 possible grade points awarded for submission of the historiographical essay. Use file attachment protocols for assignment submission.