Choose one of the topics below and answer the questions.

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  • Choose one of the topics below and answer the questions. Please keep in mind that this assignment is to prepare me for a research paper so you can just pick any topic you want and I will write the research paper myself. Thanks!
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  • Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan sermons.
  • The first American poet Anne Bradstreet and her inspiration.
  • The Great Depression
  • Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the American Revolution.
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • Abigail Adams and feminism
  • Meriwether Lewis, geography, geology, and botany
  • US Intervention in the Vietnam War
  • Washington Irving’s journey in writing Rip Van Winkle
  • Black civil war soldiers
  • James Fenimore Cooper, Native Americans, and The Last of the Mohicans
  • The political election process in the United States (Remember especially with this one that you must keep opinions out of research papers.)
  • Transcendentalism and any of its authors.
  • American sonnets by James Russell Lowell
  • The songs of Hamilton (the musical) and the actual events of US History
  • Symbolism in the works of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Frederick Douglass as one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement.
  • The assassination of US Presidents throughout history
  • Which topic did you choose? Will you take an analytical stance in your research, or an argumentative one?
  • Based on the topic you chose, come up with a research question or a claim. What is your research question (if you chose analytical) or your thesis statement/claim (if you chose argumentative)? Keep in mind, this may change and evolve throughout the research process.
  • Now, get researching! Find at least three resources. Then, analyze them here.

You can use the Pioneer Online Library (how-to video here), Google Scholar, your local library, or the library at a local university. Do not use Wikipedia or any form of Wiki.

Source 1:

Where did you find it? What type of source is it? (digital, print, etc)

Is it a primary or secondary source?

How does this source answer your question or support your claim?

Source 2:

Where did you find it? What type of source is it? (digital, print, etc)

Is it a primary or secondary source?

How does this source answer your question or support your claim?

Source 3:

Where did you find it? What type of source is it? (digital, print, etc)

Is it a primary or secondary source?

How does this source answer your question or support your claim?