<p> Paper Two: Historical Research Paper </p><p>Assignment: Analyze artifacts in periodicals and discuss what these artifacts reveal about the attitude of the organization that produced them. </p><p>Audience: Students are presenting their papers at the Atlanta History Conference.</p><p>Sources: Magazines and Newspapers from 1900-1989</p><p>Rolling Stone Atlantic Life Reader’s Digest US News and Report Ladies Home Journal Time Southern Living The Nation America Ebony News Week American Scholar Harper’s New York Times</p><p>*This list is not comprehensive. There are other sources available as well. </p><p>Length: 3-5 Pages, Double-Spaced, 1 Inch Margins, Times New Roman Font, Stapled, Folder, Black Ink, Name and Page Numbers on each page</p><p>Citation: MLA Style</p><p>Grading: 15%</p><p>Due Date: Peer Review: March 4, 2015 (MWF) Final: March 6, 2015 (MWF) March 5, 2015 (TR) March 17, 2015 (TR) </p><p>Purpose The goals of this assignment are for you to learn how to conduct archival research, to practice rhetorical analysis, and to practice critical analysis. You will gain experience interpreting historical artifacts that can inform your perceptions of both the past and present. You will explore how cultural and social attitudes reveal themselves either overtly or implicitly in historical material.</p><p>Writing the Paper You will select one of the topics that I have listed below. In the coming days, we will discuss some of the potential topics in order to give you a better sense of specific historical moments. These are topics that were important throughout the twentieth century. If you would like to explore a topic that is not listed, you may present your idea to me, and I will decide if you may use it. </p><p>Approved Topics World War II (1939-1945) Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) Vietnam (1954-1975) HIV/AIDS (1983-1989) Women’s Suffrage Movement (1915-1920) The Cold War (1960-1989) Women’s Rights Movement (1970-1979) JFK (1960-1965 [d.1963]) Richard Nixon (1969-1974) Ronald Reagan (1980-1989)</p><p>After you select your topic, your job is to do research using Hightower Library’s periodicals to discuss how specific magazine and newspaper organizations feel about your topic. Select one of the following two options:</p><p>1 Option One- Choose a single periodical (newspaper or magazine organization) and determine the periodical’s attitude toward your topic. You must research their attitude over a five to ten year period. </p><p>Option Two-Over a five or ten year period, explore how two periodicals (newspaper or magazine organizations) feel about your topic. This means that your analysis will be comparative. Consider how the periodial’s attitude changed or stayed the same? This option will require you to look carefully though both periodicals to determine their attitude toward your issue</p><p>Your job is not to report on your topic. For example, if you decide to explore how Atlantic Magazine felt about WWII, you would not spend time listing the details of the war, important events that happened during the war, or even people involved in the war. Your job would be to explore Atlantic Magazine’s attitude toward the war. Therefore, you will look closely at word choice, sentence construction, tone, etc. to determine their attitude. Sometimes the feelings of the periodical will be very explicit. Other times, the attitude of the periodical will be implicit. This is not a summary paper. Your job goes beyond simply reporting what you read. This paper requires that you do in-depth analysis. Some of these periodicals may include interviews. Remember that the ideas expressed by an interviewee are not necessarily shared by the journalist in the periodicals. You need to explore how the journalists treat the ideas expressed by an interviewee. Your most important job is to interpret/analyze what the artifact tells you about the beliefs, philosophies, and attitudes of the people who produced the periodical. </p><p>The thesis of this paper will answer the question “How does the magazine(s) or newspaper(s) feel about your issue. The body sections of this paper will be determined by your findings. Each body section will focus on a different sub-claim about how the periodicals felt about your topic or how they demonstrated those feelings. (These sub claims will correspond to the thesis.) If you cannot prove it, you cannot claim it. Every claim that you make about the periodical’s attitude must be supported by ample textual evidence. You have to explain how that evidence demonstrates what you claim it does. </p><p>Be mindful that every element in the periodical is an important artifact; this includes photographs, cartoons, articles, opinion pieces, etc. You must collect and examine at least fifteen artifacts from at least six different issues of your selected periodical(s). At least two of your artifacts must be visual. You will have to complete an Artifact Log, which will help you to analyze and organize your material. (More information about this will be forthcoming.) In your paper, you will construct an analysis that focuses on what these artifacts tell you about the attitudes, philosophies, and beliefs of the people who produced the periodicals concerning your issue. Your analysis works on two levels: 1. You need to look at all of your artifacts collectively and discern what they tell you about how the periodical felt about your issue. 2. You need to look at each artifact individually to see what the rhetoric of each artifact reveals about how the periodical felt about your issue. </p><p>Things to Remember and Consider:</p><p>1. Do not procrastinate. </p><p>2. This assignment is specifically designed to make you go to the library. All of the sources are either in books in the library that cannot be checked out or on microfilm. </p><p>3. Plan to spend a significant amount of time exploring the archives. Archival research is not a quick process. You will be wading through a great deal of material. </p><p>4. Remember that you need to make clear in your paper the dates of each artifact. </p><p>5. Everything in the periodical is an artifact. </p><p>6. The more artifacts that you have the better.</p><p>7. Do not forget about specific thesis statements, clear topic sentences, concluding sentences, and smooth transitions. </p><p>2 8. Cite each artifact.</p><p>Be Mindful of the Following: </p><p>Pay careful attention to the grammar, style, citation, and formatting concepts that we have discussed in class. I will deduct one point for each occurrence of errors in the following areas:</p><p>-Parenthetical Documentation -Works Cited Documentation -Formatting Titles -The use of personal pronouns (I, we, you, etc.) and contractions (In excess of two) -Comma Splices and Improper use of Semi Colons -Unstapled Papers -Subject Verb Agreement -Papers not in Times New Roman Font -Papers not in 12point Font -Papers that are not in Proper MLA Paper Format -Papers that do not have one-inch margins on all sides -Quotations that are not properly integrated</p><p>3</p>