Use the topic- chief pontiac- leader of war against colonizers to get primary sources, from the primary sources create questions out of it. Use the attached template to write the essay/project.
The HEA (Historical Event Analysis) is our course project.
It serves an introduction to the research process, including primary sources and thesis statements.
Your final project will be relatively brief and will include:
1) A summary of your topic that includes your original thesis statement (300 words)
2) An analysis of one of your primary sources (150-200 words)
3) An analysis of your second primary source (150-200 words)
4) Conclusion
Works Cited
The analyses of your primary sources should include what they are (letter, legislation, item), who or what produced them, and a summary of their contents and what you learned from investigating them.
Submit your proposed primary sources to me here by attaching a Word Doc or PDF. I want to see as much information as you can provide. What is it, who or what created it, when was it created (remember, it should be from the past), and where you accessed it (which archive or library).
Be careful: Someone always submits a webpage from history.com or something like that. THIS IS WRONG. Primary sources are artifacts from the past, not articles written later (even if those articles are scholarly).
You would be surprised how many places there are online to locate primary sources. The best ones are libraries and archives such as those below:
After primary sources, this is the most important part of the project.
Thesis statements are the main idea or main argument of a research project.
Take a look at the video below and do your best to make an original claim based on your investigation of the primary sources.
The video below should help.
A thesis can also be called your argument, main idea, or claim. It is what your paper is stating and proving. Much like a scientist has a hypothesis or theory, the historian has their thesis. You state your argument in the introduction and the rest of the paper provides evidence to prove it.
A thesis is decided by investigating your sources. What would you like to say about your topic that, theoretically, no one else has and that you saw in your primary sources.
Digital Public Library of America
The Library of Congress
The National Archives
The Smithsonian Institute
Fordham University History Sourcebooks
