The purpose of this assignment is to give students an opportunity to research a topic about Ohio History. The paper will be graded on the following criteria: content, analysis, clarity of paper, style, bibliography, and overall impression. TOPIC — KENT STATE UNIVERSITY (MAY 4, 1970) PRIMARY SOURCES Backderf, Derf. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. Abrams ComicArts, 2020. Broadhurst, Christopher J. “‘We Didn’t Fire a Shot, We Didn’t Burn a Building’: The Student Reaction at North Carolina State University to the Kent State Shootings, May 1970.” The North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 87, no. 3, North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2010, pp. 283–309, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23523831. Burgan, Michael. Death at Kent State: Explain How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America. Compass Point Books, Capstone Press, 2017. Grace, Thomas M. Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties. University of Massachusetts Press, 2016, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1hd19t4. Grace, Thomas M. “Aftermath.” Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, University of Massachusetts Press, 2016, pp. 231–50, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1hd19t4.18. Grace, Thomas M. “‘Right Here, Get Set, Point, Fire!’” Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, University of Massachusetts Press, 2016, pp. 207–30, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1hd19t4.16. Means, Howard B. 67 Shots Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Da Capo Press, 2016. O’Hara, John Fitzgerald. “Kent State/May 4 and Postwar Memory.” American Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, pp. 301–28, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40068365. Wiles, Deborah. Kent State. Thorndike Press, a Part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
