For this essay assignment, you will need to select one or more primary sources that correspond to any of the historical periods that we will review in this class.
You will then perform a close reading of that source or sources and write your essay with supporting examples. You will also use additional secondary sources to support your essay and for background information.
Remember that sources similar to Wikipedia should be avoided.
The essay is to be typed, 4-5 pages in length, size 12 font, Times New Roman, double-spaced, and turned in on the due date. You must cite all sources according to the Chicago style format.
You will be submitting your paper to the corresponding Canvas module.
The analysis paper should begin with an introductory paragraph and a thesis statement. The introductory paragraph needs to be followed by several supporting paragraphs that answer the questions listed below and support your thesis statement.
Your analysis on the PRIMARY SOURCE must answer the following questions:
Clarify the historical context (author and audience, date, central issue) of the primary source.
1. What is the title of the primary source? Make sure to include the title of the document in the intro.
2. Explain the historical context of the primary source.
3. When was the document written?
4. Who is the author?
5. Who is the intended audience?
6. What is the central issue?
7. What does the document tells us about the historical era?
8. What is the author's background or position in society?
9. What is the author's bias? What does the author feel strongly in favor of or strongly against?
10. What does the primary source tell us about the historical era?
The essay must be in your own words and voice. If you need any help, feel free to ask me questions at any time.
Discussion:FOCUS QUESTION
1) How did the Great Awakening challenge the religious and social structure of British North America?
The first printing press arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1638, at the recently founded Harvard College. It is hard to imagine that this wooden machine could wield enough power to change a culture and affect the history of a place and its people. By the mid-eighteenth century, the existence of printing presses in the colonies helped inform, entertain, and bring American colonists together culturally. We live in the world of instant communication, where the written word has the ability to be dispersed to millions of people instantaneously.
However, the force of shared printed materials during the colonial period, and the ideas they conveyed, cannot be underestimated. The printed word provided wide public access to very powerful ideas.
Benjamin Franklin, thought of as the founder of the Enlightenment in America, famously believed in the ability of educated men to gain understanding of the natural world through scientific observation. Via his printing presses and publishing business, Franklin himself did much to spread Enlightenment sensibilities throughout the colonies in the form of a Farmer's Almanac.
The power of the press was also put to use in service of the spread of new religious ideas, such as those espoused during America's first "Great Awakening," a religious movement that caught fire in the colonies, in large part due to a literate population, receptive to learning about preachers who challenged the established British churches.
They learned about those preachers and their sermons because of the growing access to printed materials from multiple sources, not just the established churches.
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