Your largest single assignment will be to write a review paper discussing a secondary source – a paper that reviews a ‘history book’ from the list below.

1. Michael Coe (The Ancient Maya)

2. Anna Lanyon (Malinche’s Conquest)

3. Marc Aronson (Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials)

4. William Cronon (Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England)

5. Gwenda Morgan (The Debate on the American Revolution)

6. Alfred Young (Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson)

7. Douglas R. Edgerton (Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802)

8. William Hogeland (The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty)

9. Glenn Tucker (Tecumseh: A Vision of Glory)

10. Daniel Walker Howe (What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848)

11. Amy H. Sturgis (The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal)

12. Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz (The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America)

13. Amy S. Greenberg (A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico)

14. Tyler Anbinder (Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850’s)

15. Eric Foner (Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877)

These are all books that can be found through the LCC library, the Laredo Public Library, or ordered online.

The below links should help you distinguish between a book review and a book report –

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https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/resources/study/criticalbookreview/

In short terms, a book report tells readers what’s inside a book – a book review tells readers what the book accomplishes.

DO NOT WRITE A BOOK REPORT

Your paper is due on August 14, 2014 at midnight.

Your paper should be about 2000 words long (that’s about eight double-spaced pages). Use Times New Roman 12 point font with standard margins. Use standard citations for the book and any other sources you may use, as found here.