1. The requirements for this course are:
   1. four brief (two pages each, 55- words each max) essays (one for each section) responding to quotes in which you position yourself and at least one historian read for that section, use a contemporary source or data to prove your point, suggest specific additional types of material that would help prove your point (25%);
   2. three brief (one-two pages each) reviews of an additional article or chapter (see below, one for each of three out of the four sections) in which you point out his or her hypothesis, relate it to the relevant theme, and compare and contrast the article with one of the required readings (15%);
   3. an analysis of primary sources (employing the method and views of the historians read), focusing on seventeenth-century English pamphlets, ballads, broadsides, and newspapers, in which you critique both the type of source and the methodologies, and in which you also point out what can be learned from such an interaction (10-12 pp., 40%);
   4. informed participation in discussion and occasional in-class writings, presentations, etc. (20%).
2. This is a graduate course; participation, not attendance counts. Each week you should come to class being able to identify the purpose and thesis of each chapter or article assigned, to describe the types of evidence used, and to offer an evaluation of some part of the author’s findings. You should also listen and respond to other views.
   

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