General Overview: Select an event, incident, a legislative action, or related marked historical moment in the years from Reconstruction until today that marks an important transition in American History. This historical event can lead to a social, economic, or political transition that shaped the country’s history. Additionally, you will conclude this research project with a supposition of how history might have been shaped had this event never occurred or of another possible outcome could have been possible.
Examples: How did the new technology of WWI change modern warfare? What could have been the possible benefits and problems if the Freedman’s Bureau continued beyond Reconstruction?
Completed essays must follow these formatting requirements:
All papers should be at least a minimum of 4 written pages, with no maximum page count. (Approximate minimum word count 1000-1200 words)
Double-spaced
Acceptable fonts (no larger than 12 pt.): Times New Roman, Arial, Garamond, or Book Antiqua
1” maximum margins on top, bottom, right and left
There should be NO headers (paper title, student name, course, date, instructor, etc.) on ANY page that includes written essay-body text. Any header information, if desired but not required, should ONLY be on a title page (however a title page is not required).
Sources (citations in text and Works Cited/Bibliography):
All of your sources must be accounted for in your text, using either endnotes or footnotes only (parenthetical reference not permitted).
Students must use either footnotes or endnotes for in-text citations, but not a mixture of both. Be consistent throughout the paper. Footnote and endnote citations also do count in final paper page/word count (Visit this website to understand what are footnotes and endnotes and how you create them, additional information on citing your sources to style are found in the Helpful Links)
You must use at least five (5) sources that you will be using in the final writing of your paper.
The essay should have a MINIMUM of two (2) primary sources. two (2) secondary sources, and one (1) image source (primary if possible).
If the image is a primary source, it is not included in the two primary source requirement. Internet sources should be avoided unless they are from academic sources.
ALL internet sources must be approved by the instructor, and failure to gain approval will result in not receiving credit for those included sources in this assignment as well as in the final bibliography with the paper.
Primary or Secondary Source Image/s:
Your images should be either embedded in the essay text as a wrapped object or included on a separate page. If wrapped, please consider that amount of essay text that is being displaced by the image and compensate that displacement by insuring that the proper page length/word requirement is met in additional pages.
Each image MUST be supported by an analysis in a caption. The caption DOES contribute to word count of the final essay project (suggested caption word count: 50-100 words)
Bibliography/Works Cited page:
Should be included and is separated on its own page at end of paper
Each paper should be accompanied by a Bibliography/Works Cited page with correct format for all sources used in the paper.
The required citation method for this course is the Turabian/Chicago citation method. (Please see the link titled How to Create Citations & Bibliography using the Turabian/Chicago Method in Essay Project > Essay Formatting & Helpful Links > Helpful Links for Completing Your Paper)
The Bibliography/Works Cited page DOES NOT count in total required page count of the essay Assignment.