U.S. History Module 2: Journals and Seminal Sources: Pre-Class Assignment

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Discovery Search

PeliCAT is the online catalog of the Katharine Brush Library.

Videos and Tutorials

As part of your pre-class assignments for the U.S. History Research Project, you will watch a series of video tutorials on EdPuzzle.Through EdPuzzle, your instructor will monitor your viewership and assign questions to check your understanding of the material.

The Historiography of Reconstruction

Read Alan Brinkley’s “Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction” with a focus on these perspectives:

• The Dunning School
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Revisionist approach
• The “Foner” School and contemporary historians

Book Reviews

• From the Module 1 Post-Class Assignment, choose one of the secondary source books from your NoodleTools bibliography. Choose a book title you consider important for your topic and will potentially use in your paper.
• Next find two book reviews for this source using the video tutorial to guide you through this process.