Prompt: Choose a scholarly secondary source from the list provided. A scholarly work of history includes footnotes or endnotes and is authored by an expert in the field. The selection must pertain to the historical period or subject of the course.

Explain the author's main argument and how the author draws on historical evidence to advance that argument. Offer a brief evaluation of the merits of this scholarly work. In your evaluation, be sure to discuss its limitation and/or limitations. Support your explanation and evaluation with specific evidence from the scholarly

Intrucstions:

Option A: Scholarly Secondary Source-Based Paper Goals of this Paper: The purpose of this assignment is to advance your ability to reason through a specific historical question and to express your ideas in writing. Thus:

•Your paper should briefly introduce your paper's topic or question and provide a thesis statement*. In a paper of this size, your introduction and thesis statement should appear on the first page, in the paper's first paragraph.

•Your paper should show that you reasoned through the evidence in a fair-minded way. In other words, you should state (paraphrase) what your evidence says and not what you wish it said or think it should say. You need to state the evidence fairly, even if you think it wrong or offensive.

•Your paper should use evidence to answer the historical question. You need to explain how the evidence answers the question. The easiest way to figure this is to think through your evidence and argument using one or more of the key concepts for this course.

•Your paper should briefly explain an implication or limitation of your analysis. For an implication, you might consider how your analysis sheds light on one of the course's key terms. For a limitation, you might note which key concepts your analysis does not (or cannot) address.

•Your paper should develop and organize your thoughts clearly and logically. Outlining is a necessary, but not required, step in writing a well-organized paper.

•Your paper should draw a conclusion. The conclusion addresses the paper's chief topic or question and states your answer to the question or your contribution to the topic. Format:

• Submission to Blackboard Learn via the paper portal.

• Typewritten, double-spaced, 12-point type, Times New Roman font.

• Length -paper must be a minimum of 500 words and must not exceed 750 words.

• Citation - as this is a History course, use Chicago (Turabian) style for your citations.