My name: Catalina Real Escobar
My professors name : Dr. Maxwell
(For purposes in Chicago style)
INSTRUCTIONS:
AMH 2020: U.S. History Since 1877
Assignment Name: Change and Continuity over Time Paper
Due Date: 3/20/2022
Purpose: This assignment provides you the opportunity to practice critical reading, summarization and paraphrasing skills and demonstrate your ability to make a historical argument based on primary and secondary source evidence.
Skills:
Contextualize, Analyze and Engage with primary sources
Contextualize, Analyze and Engage with secondary sources
Write an essay that comes to well-reasoned conclusions, supported by relevant evidence, and tested against relevant criteria and standards
Knowledge:
demonstrate knowledge about central events and context of US History in the 1930s-1940s period.
Task:
For this essay you write a 1,000-1,500-word paper (4-6 pages) that answers the essay prompt with a clearly articulated thesis statement and defends your analysis with evidence from primary and secondary sources.
Detailed Instructions:
Write a 1,000-1,500-word essay in response to the following prompt: To what extent was the New Deal a continuation of the Progressive movement, and to what extent did it represent a significant shift?
The essay should explain the central goals of the Progressive movement (a debatable issue in and of itself!) and compare and contrast those goals with those of the New Deal. You must consider specific proposals and legislation in your answer. This essay question is phrased in such a way that you will need to make your own historical interpretation and argument, just like a professional historian. Write in third person (no “I think”s, “I believe”s, etc) to make a strong case.
I cannot emphasize this enough… The three words that you should keep in mind while writing your paper are: TO. WHAT. EXTENT.
It’s not enough to simply discuss the Progressive movement and New Deal. It’s not enough to compare and contrast them. You must make a defendable claim.
This entire essay can be written using only the sources listed below or found in the GML textbook, Perusall, or on Canvas. If you would like to use outside sources, they must come from reputable sites. Points will be deducted for using commercial websites. Stick to the Library of Congress or the FIU Library databases to be on the safe side. If you have a question about sources, reach out in the #writing channel on Slack.
Here are some sites with curated primary and secondary sources on the New Deal and Progressivism:
Digital History: The Progressive Era (1)
State Historical Society of Iowa: New Deal
(Links to an external site.) (2)
New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources
(Links to an external site.) (3)
The Living New Deal (4)
Format the paper using Chicago Manual of Style formatting. For a breakdown of proper formatting see this page. (5) Include a cover page and an alphabetized bibliography at the end of the paper. Put quotation marks around any direct quotes and properly cite all direct and indirect (paraphrased) sources in footnotes. Do not submit a paper that is substantially comprised of other’s thoughts or ideas – write your own thoughts.
Review the attached rubric to ensure that you are hitting full marks in each assessment category.
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This is what the links are to acceptable resources mentioned above (can use other resources as well but must be credible !!!)
– https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=11&smtID=1 (1)
– https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/new-deal (2)
– https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/index.html?&loclr=reclnk (3)
-https://livingnewdeal.org/ (4)
Other link mentioned (specific Chicago style instructions) (copied and pasted) (5)
How to format a Chicago-style paper
All essays in this class should conform to the following guidelines for formatting.
Overall page layout
One inch margins on sides, top and bottom.
Use Times or Times New Roman 12 pt font.
Double-space the text of the paper.
Use left-justified text, which will have a ragged right edge. Do not use fully (newspaper-style) justified text.
Use a 1/2” indent for paragraph beginnings, block quotes and hanging (bibliography) indents.
Number the pages in the top right corner of the paper, beginning with the first page of text. It’s a good idea to include your last name as well, in case pages become separated. Number straight through from the first text page to the final bibliography page.
Cover page
Center the title of your paper in the middle of the page, halfway down.
Center your name directly under the title.
My name [Dr. Lindsey Maxwell], course title and semester, and date should be written in three lines and centered at the bottom of the page.
Use Times or Times New Roman 12 pt font for the title page. Do not try to make your cover page decorative by using bold, underline, or creative fonts.
Do not put a page number on the cover page, and do not count it as part of the total page count.
Assemble your paper in the following order
Cover/title page
Body of the paper
Appendix (if needed)
Bibliography (if needed)
Names and numbers
Use full names of people and agencies/legislation the first time you use them. For agencies, include the acronym in parentheses after the full name when first used, e.g. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA).
After the first time you can refer to people by their last name or agencies/bills by their acronyms for the rest of the paper.
Write out numbers lower than 100. (“All nine members of the Supreme Court…”)
Footnotes
Use footnotes for citing sources. Do NOT use parenthetical citations or endnotes. See here for how to insert footnotes in MS Word or Google Docs.
Footnotes go at the bottom of the page where the reference occurs
Within the essay text: put the note number at the end of the sentence where the reference occurs, even if the cited material is mentioned at the beginning of the sentence.
The note number goes after all other punctuation.
Be sure to use Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3) nor Roman (i, ii, iii).
Single space each entry; double space between entries.
Indent the first line of each note.
Never reuse a number – use a new number for each reference, even if you have used that reference previously.
Be sure to look at shortened form examples for sources you refer to more than once.
To cite multiple sources in a single note, separate the two citations with a semicolon. Never use two note numbers at the end of a sentence.
Bibliography
Your bibliography should go on a separate page, with the word Bibliography centered at the top of the page in Times/Times New Roman 12 pt font. Do not use bold or large size font for the heading.
Be sure to use proper formatting – note and bibliography styles are different.
Use a “hanging indent” – the first line of the citation begins at the margin, subsequent lines are indented.
If your source has no author, alphabetize by title within the authors – don’t make a separate list.
Don’t separate primary and secondary sources unless requested.
Watch out for these common errors:
Note format uses first name last name, bibliography uses last name, first name.
In your notes, do not reuse numbers! Each citation gets a new number.
Pay attention to indents. Notes use a first line indent, a bibliography uses a hanging indent.
A bibliography goes in alphabetical order by author (or title if there is no author). Notes are numbered and are listed in the order the sources are used.
Don’t put Works Cited at the top of your bibliography – that is MLA style.
