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HISTORY PAPER ASSIGNMENT

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, ed. Victoria Bissell Brown (Bedford, 1999). ISBN 0-312-15706-7.  

The first paper is due on Monday, April 17th, 2016.  Late papers are not accepted.  The papers are to be typed, double-spaced, and no longer than five pages.  You do not need a separate title page or bibliography; simply put your name, professor's name, course and section, and date at the top of the first page.  Give your paper a title.  Submit the paper to the Turnitin drop box here on Blackboard. 

A good paper defends a thesis with supporting evidence.  The thesis is the argument you are making, or (to put it another way), your answer to the question being asked.  Supporting evidence, taken from the book, should prove your thesis correct. Use quotations from the historical documents, rather than the editor’s introduction.  For each piece of evidence (quotation, paraphrase, statistic, etc.) you need to cite the source.  In this case, footnotes or endnotes are unnecessary; you may simply put the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Remember that all evidence, not just quotations, need citations.

A good paper also has an organized structure:  the introduction, the body, and the conclusion.  The introduction should briefly state your thesis.  The body of your paper should provide the evidence which supports your thesis, organized in a logical manner.  The conclusion should sum up the main points that you have made, explaining how they prove your thesis correct. In a short paper such as this, the introduction and conclusion should not be more than one paragraph.  Proper grammar and punctuation are also elements of a good paper, so please PROOFREAD!

For this assignment, you may choose to write on ONE of two questions, using Addams' words and the other primary source documents Brown presents:

1.  Many historians of the progressive movement have noted a basic tension in progressivism between its democratic and elitist tendencies.  Based on your reading of her book, do you think Jane Addams was predominantly a democratic or an elitist progressive?

2. What were the initial goals of Hull House?  How did its mission change over time?  To what extent was Hull House successful in achieving its goals?