Please let me know if this is doable. A history paper on either one of these two topics
What contributions did recent immigrants make to the civil war?
OR
Examine the Native American contributions to the Civil War.
NO PLAGERISM
Untitled All students are required to submit a course paper. Students should use secondary academic sources (primary sources are also allowed) to generate a 5-7 page paper with a clear thesis that addresses a political, ideological, social, or military aspect of the US Civil War. Potential theses include (but are not limited to): • Was the Civil War won by the United States, or lost by the Confederacy? • Examine the Native American contribution to the Civil War. • What contributions did recent immigrants make to the Civil War? • Wat the Civil War a total war? Was it the first total war? Your paper is due on Blackboard on Monday July 26th. Writing Guidelines RESEARCH & SOURCES Papers must employ at least 5 secondary sources. Papers can use primary sources, and these do count towards the 5-source requirement You are welcome to use the non-textbook readings assigned in this class. You can also use information I have used in lectures. You don’t need to cite this information. With the following exceptions, Websites cannot be used as sources. The exceptions are: -JSTOR - Any of the non-encyclopedic options found in Hunter College Library’s list of databases (https:// library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases) - Any of the non-encyclopedic options found in the NYPL’s list of databases (https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles- databases) - Museum Websites - Google Scholar - Legitimate academic sources found via Google Books or ProQuest Ebook Central - Dissertation databases 2. BASIC WRITING Must employ Standard English grammar and structure. This includes language and vocabulary that is appropriate to an academic audience and is free of jargon, clichés and slang and does not employ inappropriate abbreviations. Each submission must be thoroughly revised, edited and proofread for language, spelling, typographical and grammatical errors. 3. FORMATTING • All submissions must use 12-point font in Times New Roman, Ariel, Calibri, or other clearly legible and standard font. • The text must be double-spaced and contain 1” margins on all four sides. • Indent new paragraphs using five spaces or the default on you word program. Do not skip a line between paragraphs. • All pages should be numbered. The first page of the text should be numbered 1. The page numbers should appear in the upper right-hand corner of each page. 4. CITATIONS • Quotations and paraphrased work from other authors should be limited and strategic and must be properly noted and cited as footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical citations. • Citations can be in any recognized citation style (Chicago, APA, MLA), but must be correct and complete. • Using just the information provided in your citation and bibliography (if you need one), the reader should be able to find the work you cited. • Footnotes or endnotes should be single-spaced and in the same size and type of font as the text. • Place all citation numbers in the text after the final punctuation (the period, question mark or final quotation mark). Do not place citation numbers in the middle of sentences. • Do not use Ibid. • Sequential citations of the same work within the same paragraph should be combined and cited at the last point of citation in the text (this will often be at the end of the paragraph). • Students who wish to include images, maps, or tables in their paper should discuss appropriate formats with the instructor prior to submission. 5. GRADING • Papers that do not meet the length or source requirement will receive a reduced grade. • Papers that are submitted late will receive a reduced grade. 6. PLAGIARISM • Plagiarism includes instances of “summarize and cite” where only occasional words are changed, and the rest are left as they are. If you are going to summarize and cite, it needs to be entirely in your own words. • Your work will be run through a plagiarism checker that not only covers articles and websites, but essays submitted to CUNY, other colleges, and high schools. Copying from such works (and/or using so called “essay mills”) will also be treated as plagiarism. • If you wish to run your own work through a plagiarism checker as a precaution, the only things that are acceptable if they come up as matches are common phrases and names (“the Civil War,” “Abraham Lincoln”), citations/bibliography, course details, and any language that is in quotation marks). • This course, the History Department, and Hunter College have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to plagiarism. Online Research Resources-1 Research Resources Sources • Hunter College Library • Research Guides • Databases • America: History and Life • America’s Historical Newspapers • Early American Newspapers • Ebook Central • EBSCO • EBSCO eBook • Cambridge Histories Online • JSTOR • Online Books Page • Open Access Theses and Dissertations • Oxford African American Studies Center • Oxford Reference Online • OneSearch (ebooks) • NYPL • SimplyE App • Articles and Databases • Academic One File • Academic Search Premier • ACLS Humanities E-Book Project • African American Newspapers and Periodicals • America’s Historical Newspapers • American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals • American Broadsides and Ephemera • New York State Newspapers • New York Times • Google Scholar • Google Books • Internet Archive – archive.org • Hathi Trust • Academicworks.cuny.edu Quote integration and summarize and cite-1 Quote integration: Running as an undercurrent throughout the arguments in all four categories was a general fear of change, best demonstrated by an Illustrated London News leader in 1855 that acknowledged the fairness of purchase reform but demanded to know if “the British public… has… fully considered the subject in all its ramifications? And would the system, if established, conduce to the satisfaction of the people, or to the welfare of the country?” Or An officer of nineteen years’ service, in a pamphlet defending the purchase system, noted those qualities which made a good officer, capping a list of non-military but gentlemanly qualities with “above all, he should be a good cricketer, a fair shot, and a good rider across country.” Summarize and cite: Scholars traditionally date the origins of the formal purchase system to the restoration of Charles II (1660-1685), with a brief exception during the reign of William III (1689-1702), who attempted to permanently wipe out the practice. Or Another school of thought on the British Army before and after the Crimean War, led by Cecil Woodham Smith and Asa Brigg, has argued that the Crimean War shocked the British Army out of a post-Waterloo torpor and triggered a wave of reforms.