US History Documents and Historiography
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Write document-grounded arguments about US history, defend periodization, and weigh competing interpretations
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Quizzes
Write items where each stem is a short excerpt from a document in the source material, headed with author, document type, and approximate date, or a brief statement of a historian's interpretation. Ask what the author is arguing and against whom, whose interests the document serves, which later development it best explains, which evidence would most undermine a stated interpretation, or which of two periodizations…
Tests
Build an assessment from the source material weighted fifty percent one document-based essay, twenty five percent short answer, twenty five percent multiple choice on interpretation. The document-based essay supplies four to six short excerpts, each headed with author, document type, audience, and approximate date, and asks a contestable question. Required of the answer: a thesis that takes a position and is not a…
Flashcards
Three card types, all argumentative. Type one: front identifies a document from the material by author, type, and approximate date with a one-line gist, back states what it is strong evidence for, whose point of view it carries, and one limit. Type two: front names a historiographical debate such as the causes of secession, the character of Reconstruction, the origins of the Cold War, or the New Deal's coalition,…