Homework: Document Analysis
The Goal:
This homework encourages you to explore one particular "conspicuous" or "submerged" history as revealed in the various local documents housed in our Special Collections. All of the items that you will see during your visit are ones that an historian might use in order to better understand the past, and a key goal of HST 296 is to teach you how to analyze such evidence.
Task
Choose one document (or more than one, if they relate to the same topic) from thoseon display duringyour section's scheduled visit to the Special Collections of King Library, or ask one of the librarians in Special Collections to help you find something that suits your specific interests. This homework focuses on how local events on the Miami campus, in Oxford, and in southwest Ohio illustrate or, perhaps, contradictglobal trends. So the items on display will be very local in nature - issues of the Miami Studentand the Miami yearbook; documents from Western College; official records and letters of the university; documents by and about Oxford residents and/or Miami alumni, including personal letters; and so on.
In 900 words (about 3-3.5 double-spaced pages), address the following:
i. What is the title of the document? When and where was it created, and who created it? What type of document is it (letter, newspaper article, etc.), and what is its general focus?
ii. What "conspicuous" or "submerged" history does your document illustrate? Quote at least two different passages from the document that reveal this history.
iii. Where does David Reynolds's One World Divisibleaddress the history revealed in your document? Or, if his book doesn't seem to address this history, where could it have done so, given that it looked at related historical developments? Quote at least two passages from Reynolds to make your point.
iv. Finally, what differences (or local variations) do you see between the history that your document reveals and that which Reynolds discusseson a broader global level, and what might account for those differences (for example, variations in media coverage, technological development, governmental systems, family structures, religious context, etc.)?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.