EUROPE THE UNREADY

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/opinion/europe-the-unready.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

Paper Formatting Requirements Plus Turnitin Signup for Gerst

Ms. Gerst's students, please enroll for this class on turnitin.com in order to submit your annotated bibliography (not to mention your final paper) online. The enrollment code is 10744668 and the password is ProudTower.

Mr. Janus and Ms. Gerst students, below are some final guidance from your teachers on requirements for your research papers:

• Your final paper should be about 5-7 pages.  We will not take deductions for lengthy papers unless the paper reads more like a description or summary, rather than the required analysis and argumentation.
• Your paper must use a mix of primary and secondary sources. Ms. Gerst has never seen an research paper showing analysis, synthesis, and originality with less than seven sources.  Mix them up, meaning try NOT to rely on any sole source in each of your body paragraphs. 
• Use Times New Roman, 12 point for Gerst (14/16 point for Janus), and 1 inch margins.  
• History papers use Turabian footnote citation and bibliography, not MLA parenthetical citation and work cited pages. Use http://www.citationmachine.net/turabian/cite-a-book to assist you in creating the proper citation. 
• A proper citation includes the specific page number to which you are referring. 
• Ms. Gerst's students should submit their papers to turnitin.com.   

Here are some examples of what it should look like, along with an entire sample from Rampolla (note it uses endnotes - you should format as footnotes).   Need additional help on typical expectations for introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions?  Review this small section of Rampolla. 

Footnotes:

Bibliography: 

MOTHERS OF ISIS RECRUITS

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/mothers-of-isis/

Gerst test

Ms. Gerst is postponing this week's test until Friday's class. She will lecture on Russia on Thursday.

Europe Refugee Crisis Winter

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/11/13/europe-refugee-crisis-winter-389458.html?source=email-story?source=email

Catena Paper - Hints on Research Process

Most of you start the research paper process with a very general topic. During your research, you will review the literature relevant to your topic and find a creative, or original, angle on your topic.  A catena is not as difficult as you think: it is your hypothesis as to how events, peoples, compositions, ideologies, etc. (the stuff of history) served to influence each other. 

Instead of heading directly to the journal databases or the books - or more likely Google (not as helpful as you think!), consider starting with primary sources FIRST and have those form the GUTS of your paper. What are good primary sources? Newspaper articles, letters, pamphlets, poems, journals,  speeches, diplomatic correspondence from embassy to mother country, paintings, musical compositions, etc. Having the primary sources take center stage makes it much more likely that you will hit on a creative, original thesis.  You will also look at secondary sources (review of the scholarly literature) in order to enhance your understanding of the era, your topic, the existing scholarship on your topic (do others agree or challenge Tuchman's narrative), and bolster your argument within your paper. Ultimately, you need both primary and secondary sources to write a sophisticated, original paper.  Below, I have linked you to databases and collections of primary and secondary sources particularly useful to Modern European History.

BOOKS

The library houses important resources for your paper, including books, database articles, websites, e-books and primary sources.  Books provide general background information, detailed information on specific historical events, and context for an event or topic. Books are a very important piece of the research puzzle!  Remember to use the tables of contents and indexes to target specific details when using a more general text.  Enter Rowley catalog here.  

PRIMARY SOURCES:

Fordham University Modern History Sourcebook, broken down on left-hand side by era, country, or ideology, http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.asp

Other primary sources may be found under the "Documents" link on the left-hand side of the screen in ABC-CLIO as you search. Say, for instance, you researched anarchism. You will find Peter Kropotkin's Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal on the Left (1896).  Now, you have a stellar primary source to use.

You might also look for newspaper articles from the era.  If you can read French or German, see me.  Otherwise, archives of newspaper articles in English include:

Free available through Regenstein, http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/content.php?pid=497098&sid=4102969

160 years of the NY Times online, available through Rowley
http://search.proquest.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/index?accountid=14657

With some in English and some in other languages, the following group, the International Coalition on Newspapers, links to digitized newspapers by country around the world:

http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.php, available for free through Regenstein with your CNET, http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/content.php?pid=497098&sid=4102969

Likewise, Germany has digitized at least two old Prussian newspaper from the time period, available in ENGLISH at http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/amtspresse/

British government archives contain interesting records as well:

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-subject/default.htm

For those of you working on the debate over American imperialism expansion, see the Library of Congress, for instance.

Finally, here is the research guide for HISTORY for Regenstein Library.
http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/content_mobile.php?pid=497098&sid=4086704

OTHER SECONDARY SOURCES:

ABC-CLIO Modern World History, http://worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Authentication/LogOn?returnUrl=%2F

History Today, http://www.historytoday.com/user/login

JStor, http://www.jstor.org/

Project Muse, http://muse.jhu.edu/

German Leader's Open-Door Policy For Refugees Threatens Her Political Future

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/03/454342244/german-leaders-open-door-policy-for-refugees-threatens-her-political-future?sc=17&f=1004&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app