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Egnal, Marc and Joseph A. Ernst. “An Economic Interpretation of the American Revolution,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan. 1972): 3-32.

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Go to the Odum Library homepage on the VSU website. Highlight “Books and Journals” in the search box. Type in the name of the journal the article you are trying to find into the search box. For example, type in William and Mary Quarterly or Georgia Historical Quarterly. Do not type in the title of the article. Then click “Find”. Then click the “Online” option for the journal in the list you get. You should then get a list of decades. Click on the appropriate decade based on the year the article you are trying to find. You should get a list of years corresponding to that decade. Then click on the year of publication, and then search by page numbers, article title, or author.
1) Beeman, Richard. “Deference, Republicanism, and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth-Century America,” William and Mary Quarterly 49, (3) (July 1992), 401-443.
2) Egnal, Marc and Joseph A. Ernst. “An Economic Interpretation of the American Revolution,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan. 1972): 3-32.
3) Breen, T. H. “’Baubles of Britain’: The American and Consumer Revolution of the Eighteenth Century,” Past and Present 119 (May 1988): 73-104.
4) Lynd, Staughton and David Waldstreicher. “Reflections on Economic Interpretation, Slavery, The People Out of Doors, and Top Down versus Bottom Up,” The William and Mary Quarterly 68 (4) (October 2011): 649-656.
My goal for these assignments is for you to produce a thorough written assessment of several assigned scholarly articles on American History to 1865. This assignment develops analytical and critical thinking skills, and it directly promotes an understanding of the historical process. I advise you to consult the sample Article Analyses Essay found at the end of the syllabus and under the “Content” button on Blazeview. You should read and consult the Benjamin, A Student’s Guide to History when you write each Article Analyses Essay.
Your Article Analyses Essay must include a discussion of each articles’ thesis, methodology, organization, historiography, sources, and important terminology used. Your essay should also include your assessment of all the works in question, and it should not be a regurgitation of the content. You should have a single, organizing thesis found in an introduction and restated in a conclusion that ties the assessment of the assigned articles together in your Article Analyses Essay. Do not write a separate essay for each assigned article. You must discuss all the articles in one, large, inclusive essay. The final paper must be between a minimum of four (4) and a maximum of six (6) pages (1,200-1,800 words) with a separate title page and a separate endnotes page. I have included a sample in the Content section of our course. I will not begin grading until after the deadline. You may submit your assignment more than once before the deadline, but each submission replaces and erases the previous submission. Your Article Analyses Essays will not be accepted after the posted deadlines. Failure to submit any Article Analyses Essay will result in a “0” for that grade. I will not grade your assignment until after the deadline. Each Article Analyses Essay will be 10% of the final grade. Follow the steps above to ensure you submit your assignment correctly.
Rubric:
Your grade will be based on your ability to answer the following six questions for each article assigned for each review in a single, organized essay that includes a clear, concise, yet comprehensive, introduction and a conclusion that organizes each essay with a coherent argument. Your grade will also be impacted by your ability to follow directions as laid out in the syllabus and in the directions for each assignment. Grammar only matters in that the assignment must be readable and understandable.
1. What is the thesis?
2. What is the historiography?
3. What type of history is the source? (i.e. economic, military, political, social, cultural, diplomatic, environmental)
4. What is the organization or how is it structured?
5. What types of sources (primary and secondary) are cited within it?
6. What are the most important terms or terminology for proving the thesis and explaining the history covered by the publication?
Basic Points
1) Coherent and legible essay at the minimum length that uses all the assigned sources – up to 60 points.
2) Accurate citation of sources and use of Chicago Manual of Style for endnotes – up to 10 points.
3) Solid analysis and assessment of all assigned articles/essays tied together with a definitive and clear introduction and conclusion – up to 10 points.
4) Clear and concise discussion of each assigned article’s/essay’s thesis, type of history (methodology), and organization – up to 10 points.
5) Clear and concise discussion of each assigned article’s/essay’s primary (document/firsthand) sources and important terminology and how each connects with and proves or disproves the article’s/essay’s thesis and type of history – 10 points.
Bonus points (Total points for the assignment cannot exceed 100 points)
1) Ability to discuss the historiographic (secondary sources) debate covered in each article/essay and each assigned article’s/essay’s thesis fits in the historiography of its topic/field – up to 10 points.

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