Historiographical Essay Assignment
In this assignment, you will write an essay addressing the historiography of your topic based on eight or more of the secondary sources you found in your library project. Historiography is sometimes called a literature review or a survey of secondary sources. The goal of the historiographical essay is to show what others have argued about your topic. Explain the current state of historiography on your subject so that you can indicate in your final paper how your approach differs from or builds upon this existing scholarship.
What that means to me is that you need to produce an overview or summary of what other historians have written about your topic in at least eight secondary sources. What were their theses (not your thesis)? What were their main arguments? What sources did they examine and how did that influence their arguments?
ll of the secondary sources you summarize must be cited with endnotes (not footnotes). You can expand your historiography to as long as eight pages, but no longer than eight full double spaced pages. I want you to be able to plug your Historiographical Essay into your final paper in History 495 as your historiography section.
You SHOULD NOT PUT FORWARD YOUR ARGUMENT ABOUT THE SUBJECT AT ALL!
FYI: MY Thesis paper will be on How Hitler became “Man of the year” Why didnt anyone try to stop him.
