Due Jan 26

Bibliographic Plunder

HW Part One

Using the Bibliography published in The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (link), references from Wikipedia articles, and other leads, find at least 3 scholarly monographs on your topic. Check them out from the library and bring them with you to class.

In class we will look over your books and talk about how to distinguish what makes a useful source at this stage in research.

HW Part Two Pick out a crucial event relevant to your topic: a turning point or vital development in the story of what happened. Click on the TIMELINE link just above this post and add your event as a "Reply" to the appropriate year. Be sure to read over other students' prior contributions before posting. If someone else has already covered your event, come up with something else to contribute.

HW, Part Three Find and submit one "Fragment of the Past" that confirms your preconceptions about life in this period—or one that challenges what you thought you knew. Submissions go here.

In class

• Critique Timeline contributions
• Attila’s guide to internet research via Google Scholar and BU Library Databases.
• Upcoming major assignment: the Written Report.
  • Audience: college freshmen like yourself.
  • Writing Goal: bring your fellow students up to speed (what do they already know and what do they need to know).
  • Source citation: a footnote (or endnote) whenever you
    • give information that you learned during the research phase
    • want to point to a source with a more detailed account